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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r3
- Path: sparky!uunet!maxed!ed
- From: ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore)
- Subject: Re: Moving SCSI drive to different controller
- Message-ID: <BxFIEC.LG@maxed.amg.com>
- Organization: American Micro Group, Ft. Lee NJ
- References: <Bx3DA3.DDv@maxed.amg.com> <1992Nov5.193051.6941@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1741@admin.mport.COM>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 03:15:46 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <1741@admin.mport.COM> jack@admin.mport.COM (Jack Craig) writes:
- >mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- >
- >>In <Bx3DA3.DDv@maxed.amg.com> ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore) writes:
- >>>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.
- >
- >the 1740 seems to want to treat the tape to sync protocol. in so doing,
- >looses the state of the check condition on end of media. for our
- >unix systems this results in being able to write a tape, but hang
- >on trying to read it back.
- >
- >(Marketing Blurb) Microports enhanced mode driver for the 1740 has
- >a patch to work around this firmware problem. email direct for details,
- >as the engineer that wrote it, i'll be happy to provide info to interested
- >folks; unfortuneately this only helps microport svr4 users. sorry.
- >
- >jack...
- >=============================================================================
- > Jack Craig Microport SVR4 408-438-UNIX uunet!mport.com!jack
- > Software Horizons SVR3 408-684-1375 uunet!sco.com!blznrzn!jack
- >=============================================================================
- >>--
- >>"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- >> in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
- >>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >>Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
-
- That's not the only problem. Better to use a BusLogic BT 747S. It's just
- as fast and maybe faster, has active termination, and supports 2.88 MB
- floppies. It's cheaper too.
-
- --
- Ed Whittemore uunet!maxed!ed ed@maxed.amg.com
- American Micro Group, Inc. 201-944-3293
-