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- From: hans@castlerock.East.Sun.COM (Hans Hrasna)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: Problems with Sun-3 Shoebox Hard Disk Proj
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 18:52:25 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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- Message-ID: <1jmrd9INN531@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>
- References: <RALPH.93Jan21125856@cubitus.laas.fr>
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- In article 93Jan21125856@cubitus.laas.fr, ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes:
- >I am trying to interface the shoebox from a Sun-3 workstation to my
- >Mega 4 ST. Unfortunately, I do *not* have any docs on the Sun-3
- >shoebox.
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- >I am using an AdSCSI host adaptor and I have both ICDBOOT 6.0.2 and
- >6.0.3. ICD sees the controller and reports:
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- > 0 EMULEX MD21/52 ESDI
- >
- >The drive is a Micropolis 1325. When I power up the shoebox LED 3 of
- >the Emulex controller blinks. What's the significance?
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- Well... the 1325 is an ST506 drive, not ESDI. You would need an Adaptec
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- ACB4000 SCSI -> ST506 controller. The green LED on the MD21 blinks when
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- operations are normal and it is connected to an active SCSI port. So,
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- either get a ST506 controller or an ESDI drive and you'll be all set!
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- -Hans
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