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- From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
- Subject: Re: help with DRG MO Drive
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- Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
- Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
- References: <1992Dec17.035852.16510@src.honeywell.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:40:15 GMT
-
- meisner@src.honeywell.com (John Meisner) writes:
-
-
- >Help!
-
- >I'm new to A/UX, and I'm trying to format/mount my DRG 128REM
- >(a magneto-optical drive based on the MOST mechanism) on a macIIcx.
- >Have any of you suscessufully accomplished this feat?
- >What's the trick?
-
- >The error message in the A/UX System Console looks like:
- > Disk write c3d0s30 Error: Illegal request, code = 0x26
- > generic disk c3d0s30 Fatal Error: Logical block 0, physical block 0
-
- I think that this means that there's an illegal or nonsensical value
- in the SCSI command table... this is Not Good.
-
- > 4) A friend who owns the full up package of the Hard Disk
- > ToolKit v1.1, used the World Control application to look at
- > some SCSI Page parameters.
- > [Note: I am now speculating in a technical area about
- > which I am fairly ignorant.]
- > Looking at SCSI Page 0, the Unit Attention command is
- > enabled. According to the HardDisk Toolkit User's Manual,
- > page 95, [and I'm paraphrasing now], "Enabling the unit
- > attention command is an evil thing."
-
- > I tried changing the value through software, but the
- > parameter seems to revert to its original state on a reset.
-
- It's possible that the Unit has a jumper that overrides the Mode Page
- value (which is the reverse of normal) but who knows... I seriously doubt
- that it's what's wrong... GDISK just retries commands when it gets a
- Unit Attention, unless the unit is a CD-ROM, in which case it also
- attempts to set the blocksize to 512... I don't know if maybe the MOST
- looks like enuff like a CD-ROM to GDISK for this to have any effect.
-
- It's possible that the Unit is configured for SCSI-2 and/or parity, both of
- which is "wrong". Again, these may be jumpered.
-
- > Carl, thought it was a long shot, but that maybe SilverLining
- >would work. Before I invest in SilverLining, I'd like your opinions.
-
- I would doubt that SilverLining would help... What you may want to do is
- ask your friend to get his/her FREE update to FWB HDT 1.2.1 and see if that
- helps out...
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