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From: aab@cichlid.com (Andy Burgess)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Adaptec ACB-5500 st506 to scsi, how to setup
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.180757.5079@cichlid.com>
Date: 6 Nov 90 18:07:57 GMT
Reply-To: aab@cichlid.com (Andy Burgess)
Organization: Independent Software Contractor
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I just purchased an ACB-5500 to attempt to make use of about 300mb of
assorted st-506 drives from PCs. The 5500 can connect to 4 st-506 drives.
Apparently the first time you use the device you must tell the controller
what kind of drives you have attached. It then writes this info to the drives
and from then on everything works (supposedly) like any other scsi drive.

The docs for the 5500 make vague mention of a generic scsi device driver
that could be used to do this one time initialization. I hope to use this 
on a Sun SS1 (4/60). There is no /dev/scsi or mention of it in the man pages.

Anyone have any ideas? Worst case I could do the setup on a PC with MSDOS
but I would have to borrow one so a pure Sun solution is preferred.

Thank you
Andy
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Andy Burgess
Independent Software Contractor
aab@cichlid.com
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