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From: name@portia.Stanford.EDU (tony cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Request for help on setting up Syquest removable hard disk
Message-ID: <10258@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 17 Mar 90 01:05:25 GMT
References: <8657@chaph.usc.edu> <39536@apple.Apple.COM>
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In article <39536@apple.Apple.COM>, rick@Apple.COM (Rick Auricchio) writes:
> 	
> 	2) When the Syquest media is initialized, there are certain
> 	    "error control" bits that can be set/reset (I don't know
> 	    specifically, but "PER" comes to mind).  Anyway, if this
> 	    is set "wrong", A/UX attempts to fix it via Mode Select.
> 	    Sending a Mode-Select with Zero bytes of page info is
> 	    valid SCSI protocol, but the Syquest barfs.  One could
> 	    flip this bit via some kind of utility program, though.
> 
I wrote such a program. It is called scsi-fix-error-page and is available
from Sumex or from me. It sets the PER bit permanently for each cartridge.

Tony Cooper
tony@popserver.stanford.edu