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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Moving SCSI drive to different controller
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.193051.6941@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1d13eqINNin1@uwm.edu> <Bx3DA3.DDv@maxed.amg.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 19:30:51 GMT
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- In <Bx3DA3.DDv@maxed.amg.com> ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore) writes:
-
- >In article <1d13eqINNin1@uwm.edu> peter@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Peter J Diaz de Leon) writes:
- >>
- >>I have a Micropolis 1588 SCSI drive connected to a DPT EISA SCSI
- >>controller. My question is could I move the drive from a DPT
- >>controller to an Adaptec 1740 EISA SCSI controller without
- >>reformatting the drive?
- >>
- >>I am running ISC Sys V Unix Version 3.01
- >>
- >>Thanks
- >>Peter
- >>(peter@miller.cs.umw.edu)
-
- >No. DPT uses a unique translation scheme. You would have to reformat.
- >You can only move drives transparently if the controllers are
- >compatible at that level.
-
- >For instance, you could move from an Adaptec 174(x) to a BusLogic 74(x),
- >which I would recommend anyway since the BusLogic doesn't have the
- >SCSI tape firmware problem that the Adaptec has.
-
- What problem is this? I ask because I have an AHA-1740A and am
- planning on buying a high-capacity SCSI tape drive.
-
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