Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: bates@stat.stat.wisc.edu (Douglas M. Bates) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: problems with Xylogics 451/CDC Sabre 850 Message-ID: <8901092359.AA09359@bayes.stat.wisc.edu> Date: 13 Jan 89 18:43:56 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: The Stepstone Corporation, Sandy Hook, CT Lines: 14 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Mon, 9 Jan 89 17:59:52 CST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 101, message 14 of 19 X-Issue-Reference: v7n82 In v7n82, (Ruth Milner) mentioned hearing from another vendor that the Xylogics 451 controller was not capable of handling the Sabre 850 or Sabre 1230 disks from CDC. Later Glenn Adams said MIT had been running Sabre 850's off the Xylogics 451 without any problems. We have the Xylogics 451 and a Sabre 1230 and we haven't been able to format it. We have been able to read the bad block table so it appears that the controller and disk are conversing properly but we cannot get format to work for this disk under SunOS 4.0. (We also tried the new "format" program on the 4.0.1 patch tape.) If anyone has succeeded in formatting a Sabre 1230 for that controller under SunOS 4.0, we would really appreciate e-mail regarding the settings that you used.