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From: als@bohra.cpg.oz (Anthony Shipman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: the wonders of SCSI
Summary: mI'm happy with my Maxtor so far
Keywords: ISC 2.0.2 SCSI AHA-154xA
Message-ID: <122@bohra.cpg.oz>
Date: 4 Jun 90 11:21:35 GMT
References: <1272@chinacat.Unicom.COM> <1990May27.092900.828@wolves.uucp> <7598@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Organization: Computer Power Group, Melb, Australia
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In article <7598@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>, keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) writes:
> In article <1990May27.092900.828@wolves.uucp> ggw@wolves.UUCP (Gregory G. Woodbury) writes:
> >SCSI Easy?!?!?!
> >
> >HA!
> >I'v just spent the evening and night tring to get a maxtor 330MB scsi up

> 	This Maxtor has been a royal pain in the ass!  The only thing that
> will reliably format it is the scsicntl program from adaptec: even the
> internal (BIOS) formatter can't create a reliably-writable disk!  (Symptom:

I run ISC 2.0.1 with a TMC881 controller and an XT4380S. The only problem I had
was getting the UNIX driver to go when I build my own kernel. For some 
God-only-knows reason ISC only allow the TMC881 to be on IRQ5 whereas it is 
supplied jumpered for IRQ13 and that's where I want it. 

After much mucking about I figured out how to patch the space.c file to get 
what I wanted.  Oddly enough the kernel on the boot disk worked perfectly with
the TMC881 on IRQ13!

I haven't had to format the Maxtor and it has been running fine.
-- 
Anthony Shipman                               ACSnet: als@bohra.cpg.oz.au
Computer Power Group
9th Flr, 616 St. Kilda Rd.,
St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia
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