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From: dwb@well.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Want info on SCSI hard disks (generic?)
Message-ID: <1357@well.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Jun-86 07:48:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.1357
Posted: Sat Jun 28 07:48:16 1986
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Reply-To: dwb@well.UUCP (David W. Berry)
Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito CA
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I'm currently using a Solo Systems 8/50.  This is probably about as non-mac
SCSI as you can get.  It is a combination fixed/removable SASI controller
that was made many moons ago.  Until recently I was using it with a driver
of my own construction.  I am currently using it with a prerelease driver
I got from Levco.  I am in the process of writing yet another of my own
drivers from it.  The only real snag I've hit on so far is that the boot
roms reset the SCSI interface try, to do a read from it and start over again
with a reset if they don't get a response back in a "reasonable" amount
of time.  Problem is that "reasonable" isn't, thus you wind up with some
of the older/slower drives being reset in the middle of reading.  Unfortunately
mine of one of the slower drives.  Net result is that I can't get it to
auto-boot.

	David
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