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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: ESDI disks for RT (AOS 4.3)
Message-ID: <3404@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 30 May 89 04:33:38 GMT
References: <3396@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> <613@acheron.UUCP>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <613@acheron.UUCP> clarke@acheron.UUCP (Ed Clarke) writes:
>It's not a drive problem, but rather backlevel microcode on your EESDI
>board.  The microcode upgrade is available from IBM; I'll see if I can
>find the part number in the Ivory Letters tomorrow.  The upgrade consists
>of a replacement 27128 on the controller board.

Wow.  Let's see.  When my system autoconfigs, it presents the following
message:
hdc0: card level 0x4b microcode level 0x55 configuration bits 0xc1

>You have to use the STANDALONE FORMAT, not something that you can
>run under 4bsd.

Yep.  Good old sautil/format.  That's what I've been using.

Keep me posted on the microcode upgrade.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
dyer@arktouros.mit.edu