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From: alan@km4ba.uucp (Alan Barrow)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: scsicntl with ACB-4000A
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.064308.11299@km4ba.uucp>
Date: 20 Jun 91 06:43:08 GMT
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km@cs.pitt.edu writes:

>I have an Adaptec ACB-4000A scsi/mfm adapter that I would like to
>use with an AHA-1542B. It is necessary to do a mode select command
>with the drive's paramaters before formatting the drive. Scsicntl
>cannot be used for this, as the ACB-4000A does not seem to support
>the inquiry command. Does anyone know of software similar to scsicntl
>that can be used with a ACB-4000A to do the mode select?

>  Ken Mitchum KY3B
>  km@cs.pitt.edu

I have had a similar result the time I tried to use and of the Neese
or rom adaptec utils with an ACB-3530 scsi-quik 36. I never persued 
it further. Is the problem the lack of an inquiry command???


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