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- From: davidg@lsil.com (Dave Gluss 7518)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: 386BSD, Re: Colorado Memory Systems tape drive
- Keywords: IDE, Colorado Memory Systems
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.202047.3019@lsil.com>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 20:20:47 GMT
- References: <1992Sep4.043955.19904@engr.uark.edu>
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- Reply-To: davidg@lsil.com
- Organization: LSI Logic Microprocessor Group
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- I also tried to get documents from Colorado Memory Systems,
- specifically about their TC-15 compressing interface board. The
- interface to that board is NOT standard and IS proprietary. They
- (Andy Grilnick at CMS) promised to send me some documentation for
- interfacing with a standard floppy controller, but didn't.
-
- The QIC standards committee will send you documentation, but you
- have to know what to ask for--they don't know what's in the
- documents, only how to send them to you. The number there is
- 805-963-3853. I have asked for QIC-80 rev D and QIC-117.
-
- On another subject I am trying to get my new Maxtor 340A drive to
- work as drive 1 with 386BSD--it bombs at the end of newfs with
- "wdsetcntlr status 51 error 4". I added Christoph Robitschko's
- patches so I could access the drive. I also uncommented the line
- 919 (in isa/wd.c) report on disk geometry-the disk reports 128
- bytes/sector??? But everything else seems OK--the setcntrlr call
- has 512 bytes/sector. The bug always occurs at the end of the
- newfs, even if I just newfs /dev/wd1a.
-
- Has anyone succeeded at this?
-
- ---
- --Dave Gluss davidg@lsil.com 408-433-7518
-