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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Tape Drive Recommendations?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.150852.23118@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 15:08:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep2.160136.1603@unislc.uucp>, dold@unislc.uucp (Clarence Dold) writes:
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- | I have a 1740A, with a Archive DAT, and a Wangtek QIC, running SCO 3.2.4.
- | I am running "eiad", with the 1740A in enhanced mode.
- | I couldn't get my original 1740 to run SCO in either enhanced or 1540 mode.
- | The replacement 1740A is a different board layout, although similar.
- |
- | I have had no problems with either tape, or the disk.
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- I don't have scars from this problem, but I will when the scabs fall
- off. With many SCSI devices you have to go into the EISA setup and tell
- the controller not to negotiate synchronous communications. This is done
- on a per-LUN basis along with parity and a bunch of other stuff.
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- The symptom I saw was that the disk worked fine, the 150MB drive
- either ignored the negotiation or said "no thanks," and the DAT and
- CD-ROM drives went out to lunch when the 1742 start negotiating.
- Changing the config fixed it, and I sure hope this save someone the time
- it took us to find it!
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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