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From: hanson@linac.fnal.gov (Steve Hanson)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,alt.sys.sun
Subject: Sun synchronous SCSI
Keywords: SCSI SUN Fujitsu
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Date: 1 Oct 90 21:21:52 GMT
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Organization: Fermilab, Batavia,IL
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I just got a Fujitsu 2266 disk drive which I am installing on a
Sparcststion 1.  So far things seem fine.  The vendor (Datalink)
provided the drive with an installation manual for SUN workstations.

Among other things the manual says that you must disable synchronous
SCSI on the drive because the workstation won't recognize it at boot
time if synchronous is enabled.  They also have you shrink the
number of sectors due to limitations of number of sectors addressable
through SCSI 1.  Does anyone out there know if either or both of these
limitations applies to the Sparcstation?  The manual sort of implies
that this is a limitation of "some" SUN workstations.

Steve Hanson   FERMILAB  hanson@calvin.fnal.gov