Subject: Re: Not sure if this turns out to be on-topic; old Sun drives.
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 06/06/1995 22:57:20
On Tue, 6 Jun 1995 22:31:24 -0500
Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com> wrote:
> I have a sun "Emulex MD21" device, which is a tape drive and
> Maxtor 380 meg drive. The latter is not SCSI; the controller rather
> emulates SCSI for it. My problems are as follows:
Hmm...this `just works' on my Sun 3, albeit with a Micropolis drive.
I've not gotten the tape to work, even with the necessary `blank' entry
in scsiconf.c...I think my QIC-36 -> SCSI frob is toast...
This might just have something to do with the Amiga SCSI drivers?
> 1. AmigaDOS cannot see the Maxtor SCSI drive. SCSI scanning things
> do mention target 2, lun 0 and 1, but they do nothing about it.
> 2. If the tape is plugged in, the system cannot find target 0, or
> possibly also 1, generically, I think, anything lower than the tape
> drive.
>
> The box appears to be set for target 2; the dip switches referred to
> in the field engineers' guide are simply not present. (There's chips
> there, no dip switches.)
>
> Has anyone gotten one of these to work, and can anyone suggest a fix?
>
> -s
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