On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Jonathan Stone wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 13 Nov 1997 03:07:23 -0500 (EST),
>  Paul Evans <paule@shadowfax.martex.gen.oh.us> writes:
> 
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> >I'm finally going to put a disk in my MAXINE for NetBSD, I'm wondering 
> >if the SCSI problems with older disks are offically gone?
> 
> Yes, they are Officially Gone.  I haven't been able to trip over any
> recently, and with the 1.3 release, I've tried fairly hard.
> 
> >I've got a full height HP prime (97546DP) 660meg dirve. Or a dinky maxtor 
> >LXT-213 (i.e. those old 200meg SPARC ones) Or, for some real fun an old 
> >Imprimis
> 
> Pleae get the latest 1.3_ALPHA and try it out.  It works fine on some
> old full-height Fujitsu drives here. Should be fine.

Do you mean "some" as in not all, or as in all we've tried? (no offense)

> 
> I think the problems with the ioasic machines was often with poor
> cables and termination in salvaged machines, plus some software timing

Well, one of the reasons I putting this old Sun3 shoebox on my pmax is 
that my sparc really dosen't seem to like the Imprimi, which I *know* is 
properly (actively) terminated (it's works on a pc aha2940). All I can 
guess is that the sun4/65's (1+) are actully SCSI-I and don't like 
SCSI-II active termination. 

I'm assuming there is a difference. Anyhoo, the point is: is the pmax 
going to have the same problems?


> problems and startup logic with *newer*, faster disks. Those are now
> well and truly squashed.  Michael's performance tuning has improved
> SCSI throughput by up to 50% with fast drives on the ioasic SCSI bus.
> 

ps - does anyone know the wiring for a ISDN Maxine port to "do" sound? 
(what exactly is it anyway?)

thanks.

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	Paul Evans  
	paule@martex.gen.oh.us _ pevans@cleindians.com