Subject: Re: 3/80 esp problem?
To: Julian Coleman <J.D.Coleman@newcastle.ac.uk>
From: Michael Lorenz <ml@rz.uni-potsdam.de>
List: port-sun3
Date: 01/21/2000 18:29:41
Greetings !

> >       I believe someone mentioned one of their problem disks was not
> >       liked on their 3/80 and their sparc - is there anyone who would
> >       be willing to look at the problem if they had such a disk?
> >       Assuming so, would someone with a problem disk be OK with
> >       shipping it? :)
> 
> I think I may have mentioned a problem with a Quantum SUN0207 in the past.
> I have ~10 of the Quantum 425's that the 3/80 doesn't like - haven't tried
> them in a Sparc (apart from running Solaris from one on a Sparcbook).  If
> someone can look at this, I can ship them a 425 and the 0207.

Hmm, maybe off topic or irrelevant but Quantum and SCSI rang a bell - my
hp300 doesn't like any Quantum harddisk I rried ( several Lightning
models ) because the BootPROM used very restrictive timing parameters,
so the bus scan simply didn't find them because the detection timed out.
Strangely a SCSI ZIP seems to have no problem so I boot my hp300 from a
ZIP... 

bye
Michael