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- From: lampi@halcyon.com (Michael Lampi)
- Subject: Re: Maxtor Optical Disk on Apollo
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.175537.19694@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
- References: <1993Jan21.135809.9748@email.tuwien.ac.at>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:55:37 GMT
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- mjl@newton.auto.tuwien.ac.at (Martin J. Laubach) writes:
-
- > I have now been trying for quite some time to connect a Maxtor
- >Tahiti 1 magneto-optical disk drive to our Apollos. So far, without
- >success. All I could do is make scsi_info actually find the drive.
- >But invol claims "no controller found", and mount says "device busy".
- >It just seems impossible...
-
- > Yesterday, I plugged the drive into our DEC -- and it worked on
- >first try (well, almost -- but it is fairly easy). So much for HP's
- >conception of an "open system"...
-
- > mjl
-
- I had one of these in my hands for a little while and ran into the
- same problems on a DN-2500. It's due to the response from the
- Tahiti to the Apollo's SCSI Inquiry command, and the non-recognition
- of the device by the boot firmware. If the boot firmware doesn't
- like the device, then invol will not find it.
-
- You might try putting a TenX OCU in between the Tahiti and the SCSI
- bus. I've heard rumors that this works on 400's (maybe HP-UX, but
- that's another story).
-
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