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From: pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: QBUS SMD controllers
Keywords: SMD QBUS disk controllers
Message-ID: <716@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Date: 29 Jan 89 22:02:34 GMT
References: <2744@rti.UUCP> <505@physiol.su.oz>
Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University
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In article <505@physiol.su.oz>, johnd@physiol.su.oz (John Dodson) writes:
> 
> I know that there have been a lot of problems with many 3rd party controllers
> in uvax 3's (read vaxstation/vaxserver 3XXX) the problems I think are
> mainly that the controller microcode is either too slow or not quite doing
> Q-bus transactions perfectly (a la DEC ;-)
> 
  Some of us had and reported such problems with Emulex controllers.  I, spe-
  cifically, had even bigger problems attempting to resolve these hassles with
  Emulex, who first denied the problem and then played games with me for 5 mths
  until I invoked our company's attorney.

  The Dilog controllers that we now use work fine.

  Make sure that the controller card is designed specifically for the uVAX 3xxx
  enclosures....

  greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny