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- From: Mergenthal.ES_AE@XEROX.COM
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- Subject: Re: INFO-MICRO Digest V93 #5
- Message-ID: <"25-Jan-93.11:49:17.PST".*.Wade_D._Mergenthal.ES_AE@Xerox.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 19:49:17 GMT
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- Re: <RALPH.93Jan21125856@cubitus.laas.fr>, Ralph P. Sobek --
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- >I am using an AdSCSI host adaptor and I have both ICDBOOT 6.0.2 and
- >6.0.3. ICD sees the controller and reports:
- >
- > 0 EMULEX MD21/52 ESDI
- >
- >The drive is a Micropolis 1325. When I power up the shoebox LED 3 of
- >the Emulex controller blinks. What's the significance? The drive
- >sounds like it comes up fine. When I call ICDFMT is sends out a
- >sensing signal for SCSI devices, and the diode light on the front of
- >the drive flashs but ICDFMT does not get an answer.
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- Sounds like a royal mismatch of components! The AdSCSI host adapter
- implements the SCSI interface; the Emulex appears to implement the ESDI
- interface; and a Micropolis 1325 is an MFM drive.
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- You will need an MFM controller card for that disk drive.
-
- --Wade Mergenthal
- mergenthal.es_ae@xerox.com
-