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From: mike.irons@lynx.northeastern.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: ka9q and WD7000fast
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Date: 11 Oct 90 19:59:39 GMT
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	Phil Karns (ka9q) IP address is thumper.bellcore.com. I am currently
working on a directed study to merge ka9q and Minix386 v1.5. The project
will be interesting, and I have been working on it, though at sometimes rather
slowly.

	To whomever asked about the Western Digital 7000fast SCSI Host adapter.
WD has a documentation phone line at 1-800-832-4778. You're best to call with
a touch-tone phone. I have asked them to send me the OEM manual, which they
claim has the needed technical info. When I get it, and subsequently the 
board, I'll try to modify the SCSI driver I have in my Minix286 v1.5 and see
if it works. Right now the driver is written for an NCR ADP-31A which I think
is defective (and very obsolete) and as such isn't working. I can talk to
the drive, but even the built in BIOS chip won't work in a DOS environment.
I had school put the drives onto one of our sunstation File Servers, and they
said the drives were OK, so I think it is the Host adapter. 

		mike.irons%lynx@helios.northeastern.edu