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From: yon@apollo.COM (David Yon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Another ST01/ST02 question (new SCSI info)
Message-ID: <44833315.1042a@apollo.COM>
Date: 19 Jul 89 12:20:00 GMT
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass.
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In article <111@isgtec.UUCP>, bmw@isgtec.UUCP (Bruce Walker) writes:
>By playing with an ST01-A board I have discovered that if you boot
>your PC while nothing is connected to the SCSI bus, the SCSI BIOS
>complains that it has failed self-test and hangs!  The only solution
>to this appears to be to remove the BIOS ROM.  The ST01 card has no
>terminating resistors so the SCSI bus floats; this must be bugging
>the BIOS.

I would guess that they've fixed that problem in the ST01B, which has
a 16K rather than 8K EPROM for the BIOS.  At any rate, I did something
similar with my new ST02.  When I was fooling around with putting two
hard drives in the system this weekend (an ST157N and an RLL Miniscribe 
with an XT controller), I had neglected to attach the power cable to the
ST157N.  The system booted fine, but of course the D: drive was unavail-
able for use.

BTW, I was very unfortunate to not get the Disk Manager software loaded
on the disk.  Seagate is sending it to me (real soon now), but I'm a rather
impatient individual.  Could some kind soul email me an arc'ed/uuencoded
version of the software?  Until I get it I can only use the first 32 Meg
of 48 meg, and I can't set the interleave correctly.  For some reason the
built-in BIOS formatter always chooses 3:1, and I'm almost positive that
my system can handle 1:1.  If you can help me out, please email me first
so that we don't get multiples in the system.  Thanks in advance.

David Yon