Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!rg20+ From: rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rick Francis Golembiewski) Newsgroups: comp.periphs Subject: Help with Xylogics controller Message-ID: Date: 5 Aug 90 19:40:07 GMT Organization: Class of '92, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 11 I've been trying to use an Eagle SMD harddrive with a Xylogics controller on a sun 2_170, the equiptment was donated (without docs of course), I think it is formatted & has unix on it, but I'm not certain, whenever it trys to boot from powerup I get xy: error 16 cmd 6 (Anyone know what this error means?) When I try using diag on it, I get drive status:not ready off-cyl. Any ideas as to what the problem might be? -Rick Golembiewski rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu