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From: brad@microm.UUCP (Bradley W. Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: help on MICROPOLIS 1568 HD
Summary: help on MICROPOLIS 1568 HD
Message-ID: <240@microm.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 90 22:18:05 GMT
References: <436@cdin-1.UUCP> <21800004@adaptex>
Organization: Micro Maintenance, INC., Tempe, AZ
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In article <21800004@adaptex>, neese@adaptex.UUCP writes:
>>We finally gave up on the Adaptec ACB-2322B-8 under Xenix 2.3.2 GT. We were OK
>>with SCO Unix, things worked. But we needed this to run under Xenix. SCO sent 
>>a Beta copy of another formatter. Still no good. The drive kept reporting bad 
>>tracks after the hard format found none.
> 
>I never heard, but did you try disabling the read ahead on the 2322?  Did you
>also obtain the "xnx133" ESDI driver fix from SCO?
> 
> 			Roy Neese
> 			Adaptec Central Field Applications Engineer
> 			UUCP @ {texbell,attctc}!cpe!adaptex!neese
> 				merch!adaptex!neese
> 				uunet!swbatl!texbell!merch!adaptex!neese

The "xnx133" ESDI driver fix from SCO is ONLY for the Western Digital
WD1007A ESDI controller card.
I think the original poster is leaving out part of the picture here, 
because I, along with others that have posted on this subject are using
the 2322B with great success. I think it's the best solution for SCO 386
and ESDI drives (I mostly install Priam and Maxtor drives). Every one of
my installations (about a dozen now) has the read ahead cache enabled as well.
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