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From: lampi@polari.UUCP (Michael Lampi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Dwarf Disk Drives
Summary: Need to upgrade motherboard
Keywords: DN-3500, Western Digital Controller
Message-ID: <2443@polari.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 90 22:22:17 GMT
References: <9008280107.AA29790@pan.ssec.honeywell.com>
Organization: MDL Corporation, Bellevue, WA (206) 643-7333
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Michael Lampi (lampi@polari.uucp) writes:
>> I have a couple of Maxtor XT8760E disk drives connected to a DN-3500, and


[problems deleted - ran into self test errors at power-on]

The problems have been diagnosed as having to do with the age of the cpu
motherboard. Turns out that it was boot prom (rev. 1.6 from the MD banner),
and the earliest version that supports the WD controller is 3 (or maybe 4).

Anyway, the current rev is 7, and includes some different PALs, microcode
and wiring changes--not just a simple PROM swap. Sigh....

Thanks for all the help from HP/Apollo R&D!

Michael Lampi