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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: Running RZ55's on non-DEC machines?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.091140.58076@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 09:11:40 MDT
- References: <TYTSO.92Aug12010651@SOS.mit.edu>
- Organization: Utah State University
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- In article <TYTSO.92Aug12010651@SOS.mit.edu>, tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o) writes:
- > I've been told that the RZ55 will not work if you try connecting it to a
- > SCSI card on a PC --- say, an Adaptec 1542B. Is this true? If so, can
- > someone tell me why?
- >
- > I tried hooking up a RZ55 to a Macintosh, and tried running the SCSI
- > Manager on it. It didn't work; nearly every operation it tried to do
- > returned the Sense code error "Drive not ready". Is there some sort of
- > DEC proprietary command that the drive is expecting before it will
- > start working?
-
- No, it's expecting a standard SCSI command to spin up before it starts
- working. Most everyone but DEC assumes the drive spins up at power on, so
- they don't send the command.
-
- Roger Ivie
- ivie@cc.usu.edu
-