cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA (COTTRELL, JAMES) (10/01/85)
> From: linde@srcsip.UUCP (Larry Linde) > Anyone have a NON standalone version of the format > program that comes with BSD4.2? Yes. Call SI. Maybe you can buy their software without buying their hardware. They have modified the `hp' driver (& `up' driver I think) to do do ioctls which say `hey, on the next read/write I give you, do the header too'. They also supply online formatting, bad block addition/deletion, verify headers, bad block scan, etc. All online. /* From Phil Ngai */ > God made atheists too. God made Man, & Man being a gentleman, returned the favor. jim cottrell@nbs */ ------
jeff@ISI-VAXA.ARPA (Jeffery A. Cavallaro) (10/02/85)
A word of caution that may or may not be applicable here... I was once connected with a lab that had SI hardware and 4.2BSD. It was found that the SI hardware and the 4.2BSD disk driver were not compatible. There was a problem with the next-block counter in the disk controller that caused ALL KINDS of nifty problems, especially with bad block forwarding. In that SI hardware and 4.2BSD drivers are not compatible, I would venture a guess that SI software and normal DEC hardware are also not compatible. Jeff
lerner@ISI-VAXA.ARPA (Mitchell Lerner) (10/02/85)
Dear Jeff: I seem to remember a patch or new driver, sent by SI, that was installed, at that lab, that fixed the bad block forwarding problems??? Love, Mitchell
lee@unmvax.UUCP (10/04/85)
> > In that SI hardware and 4.2BSD drivers are not compatible, I would venture > a guess that SI software and normal DEC hardware are also not compatible. > > Jeff Not true! 4.1BSD had no problems at all. When SI ships you your hardware they ship drivers that work for DEC devices in your original drivers and their hardware too. Under VMS everything they ship seems to work fine. For 4.1BSD there is an on-line formatter, program to re-vector blocks and other utilities (I can't remember now) that work great too. Under 4.2BSD we couldn't get the utilities they sent out to work but the driver reports bad block numbers correctly. In short the SI drivers (at least) seem to work fine with the above mentioned OS's. The utilities work for the majority and by now probably work for all of them. SI software support seems very good, we just haven't ordered the latest-greatest from them. -- --Lee (Ward) {ucbvax,convex,gatech,pur-ee}!unmvax!lee
meier@srcsip.UUCP (Christopher M. Meier) (10/05/85)
In article <1838@brl-tgr.ARPA> jeff@ISI-VAXA.ARPA (Jeffery A. Cavallaro) writes: >I was once connected with a lab that had SI hardware and 4.2BSD. It was >found that the SI hardware and the 4.2BSD disk driver were not compatible. >There was a problem with the next-block counter in the disk controller that >caused ALL KINDS of nifty problems, especially with bad block forwarding. > >In that SI hardware and 4.2BSD drivers are not compatible, I would venture >a guess that SI software and normal DEC hardware are also not compatible. > > Jeff Are there any other online formatters available for 4.2BSD (on a 750 using Emulux sc7000 or 750 controller) ? Christopher Meier ihnp4!umn-cs!srcsip!meier Honeywell S&RC/SIP philabs!srcsip!meier