patry@spock (Jean-Yves Patry) (11/14/89)
I am in the process of evaluating 3rd party SCSI drive for HP 9000 series
300. Since we don't have too much support from our local SE, I thought it
would make sense to post this news item.
I have a 600 Mb FUJITSU M2263SA hooked up to the HP SCSI interface (HP98265A)
on an HP 9000/370. To initialize the SCSI drive, I boot off a HP7937 (307 MB)
drive hooked up to the slow HPIB. When I try to initialize the SCSI drive by
performing a "mediainit" or a "newfs", the system crashes with a "bus error".
There is a number of JUMPERS that needs to be set-up on the SCSI drive. This
is how we set-up the SCSI drive:
Setting Item Setting contents
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SCSI ID 0
SCSI time monitoring Time monitoring is executed
Read-ahead caching Permitted
INQUIRY DATA Corresponds to SCSI-1/CCS
Message Mode SAVE DATA POINTER is not issued for
disconnection after data transfer
Error report at CHECK CONDITION status is no posted
MODE SELECT
SCSI bus parity enabled on both the drive and the
SCSI interface card
Synchronous mode disabled
data transfer
UNIT ATTENTION responds with CHECK CONDITION status
report mode
SCSI time unlimited ACK signal monitoring time
monitoring mode SELECTION monitoring time is set to
250 msec, 128 retries
Is there something I did not set properly on the SCSI drive or the card ?
Any help would greatly be appreciated... If anybody has succesfully hooked
up a 3rd party SCSI drive to an HP 9000 series 300, I would like to know
the vendor's name and model.
For anybody interested, the 600 MB FUJITSU is sold for less than $5000 CDN ...
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