Bingo! Somone else is hitting the head to the wall!!

Sorry, I had to, I have to of them here and they are waiting for
connection to my MV3100.

There is something broken in the SCSI code, the start unit command is
not getting to the drive, if it is sent at all.

I can connect the disks to FreeBSD machine that I have and send the
disks "start unit" command and they spin up and are addressable and ...

But NetBSD vax does not work for them.

My disks are Maxtor disks with DIGITAL firmware and Digital seems to
have got ridden of spin up jumper function. (sorry)

I have document for the disks here somewhere and have already tried.

Thordur Ivarsson

NetBSD Bob wrote:
> 
> I have what appears to be a functional Maxtor XT8760S drive that has a note
> on it that the previous owner had used it with a DS5000 machine.  My problem
> is that I can't get the thing to spin up properly.  It may be nuked or it
> may have a jumper off somewhere.  Anyone have a motor-on-at-power-up jumper
> setting for this drive?  Either my VS3100 or my DS5000 gets it, if it works,
> so it might be a useful drive, assuming I can find the right settings.
> Any pointers thereto are appreciated.  Places like theref and that sort
> of url don't have any jumper settings, just the minimal specs.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bob