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- From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: RD53s won't stay spun-up
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.041338.1069@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 12:13:38 GMT
- References: <1993Jan2.160631.1058@cmkrnl.com> <C09q98.Aoq@world.std.com>
- Organization: Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego, CA
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- In article <C09q98.Aoq@world.std.com>, mbg@world.std.com (Megan B Gentry) writes:
- > Could it be the controller? Have you used that controller with other
- > drives successfully?
-
- yes.
-
- > Also, the drive should be jumpered for DS3 (drive select 3), which
- > should be access by the controller as unit 0.
-
- (You know, to anyone not familiar with this hardware, this would seem the
- height of idiocy... but in context it makes perfect sense... as much as
- anything in the ST506 disk drive era does!)
-
- The drives were set at DS2 for formatting on the PC (as the C: drive, at the
- end of a control cable with the twisted DS leads) and set back to DS3 for
- attempted use on the RQDX3.
-
- --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
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- Chair, Programming and Internals Working Group, U.S. DECUS VMS Systems SIG
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