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- From: leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt)
- Subject: Re: Adaptec SCSI<-->MFM and SupraDrive 500XP
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.125934.21447@cheshire.oxy.edu>
- Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
- References: <72608@cup.portal.com> <John_Davis.6hlt@equinox.gen.nz>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 12:59:34 GMT
- Lines: 50
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- In article <John_Davis.6hlt@equinox.gen.nz> John_Davis@equinox.gen.nz (The Nose) writes:
- >John D Barela (jbare@cup.portal.com) wrote:
- >
- >>Also, does anyone know where I might find an OMTI 3527 SCSI <-> RLL board.
- >>I have been told that this is a faster board, but I can't find any sources.
- >>I know that these things have been out of production for some time, but was
- >>hoping to find one at a surplus outlet. No luck so far.
- >
- >I doubt the omti will be any faster, when we tested the 4070 it gave
- >a raw speed of about 700K/s, the theoretical maximum for a 1:1 RLL drive
- >is about 800K/S, so it looks like the 4070 merely is getting lost revs
- >on step (which means we should have told format on the sun to skew accross
- >cylinders).
- >
- >>Another elusive piece I've been trying to track down is an Emulex MT-02.
- >>This is a SCSI <-> QIC-36 adapter that I hope to use with a Wangtek
- >5099EG24
- >>tape drive (60MB). BTN tape handler supports the Emulex board and I would
- >be
- >>sooo happy to back up to tapes. Thanks in advance to all responses.
- >
- >ask around any Sun oriented outfit - the mt02 was the standard tape
- >controller in the old sun shoeboxes (typically connected to either an
- >archive 5945c or wangtek 5099en24). Since a 60Mb tape drive is a bit
- >small for a Unix system nowdays, you should be able to find an un-used
- >one easy enough (that's how I got mine)
- >
- >--
- >--
- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >John Davis | davis@chem.canterbury.ac.nz |
- > | chem194@csc.canterbury.ac.nz | #include witty_comments.h
- > | John_Davis@equinox.gen.nz |
-
- I have an Adaptec SCSI to RLL/MFM adapter, capable of supporting up to
- 4 ST-506 hard-drives at once... unfortunately, my and my friends lack of
- knowledge about MFM specifications (writing a boot-list) and the non
- standard nature of my Atasi 39.3 meg MFM hard drive have conspired to
- render this unusual after months and months of trying.
-
- Now, my Palomax won't talk to it either, for the same reason.
-
- Help!
-
- Want to take my Adaptec off me? I need cash, bad.
-
- Thom
-
- mail reavis@cheshire.oxy.edu
-
-