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- From: rob@liciren.li.co.uk (Rob Clive)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Disk Controller Woes
- Message-ID: <1581@lucifer.UUCP>
- Date: 4 Nov 92 08:57:25 GMT
- Organization: Lucas Powertrain Systems, Electronic Control Group, UK
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- I have an Adaptec ACB2372B RLL disk controller which doesn't seem to
- want to accept data. I can get it to seek to tracks, restore and
- diagnose (no faults found). But any command involving a data transfer
- (format, read or write) results in a 'Command Aborted' error. In the
- format case the docs I have suggest that this status results from a
- Write Fault or Drive not ready. Neither of these seem to occur. So I
- have two questions:
-
- 1. Is there anywhere else I can look to see if the controller is
- accepting the data transfer? Looking at the sector buffer RAM I can see
- address lines changing but still I get the error.
-
- 2. Does anyone have / can point me in the direction of an OEM manual
- for the controller? In the UK is preferable but I'm desperate enough to
- consider anywhere (before you ask the local Adaptec distributor cannot
- help).
-
- Thanks in advance for any help. A reply by email would be nice since I
- often suffer from 'information overload' on this group.
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- Rob Clive. Most nets: rob@liciren.li.co.uk
- Lucas Powertrain Systems, Cirencester UUCP: ...!uknet!lucifer!rob
- Gloucestershire, GL7 1QG, UK. Now read on....
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