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- From: bob@snuffy.penfield.ny.us (Bob Smith)
- Subject: Re: Problems with Sun-3 Shoebox Hard Disk Project
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.045101.4451@snuffy.penfield.ny.us>
- Organization: Fuzzball Widget Factory
- References: <RALPH.93Jan21125856@cubitus.laas.fr>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 04:51:01 GMT
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- ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes:
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- > The drive is a Micropolis 1325. When I power up the shoebox LED 3 of
- > the Emulex controller blinks. What's the significance? The drive
- > sounds like it comes up fine. When I call ICDFMT is sends out a
- > sensing signal for SCSI devices, and the diode light on the front of
- > the drive flashs but ICDFMT does not get an answer.
-
- I think the problem may be that the Micropolis 1325 is an ST506 device,
- and the MD21 is intended for controlling ESDI devices like the
- Micropolis 1355 or 1558... The controller you need for the 1325 is an
- Adaptec ACB4000 or equivalent...
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