[comp.sys.sun] ACB-4000 with Maxtor XT-1140

smeg@uunet.uu.net (Maarten Koning) (11/16/90)

I have an old-style Sun 141 Meg shoebox that includes an Adaptec ACB4000
controller board and a Micropolis 1325 ST-506 disk.  It works just fine
and when I fire up format, I get prompted for it as a disk that I can
format etc.. (Sun OS 4.1 on a 3/60)

When I unhook the cables to the Micropolis and plug them into a Maxtor
XT-1140 drive I got ahold of and reboot, format can't find the disk.

This leads me to believe that the ACB4000 is having a hard time with the
XT-1140.  I have tried every drive select possible on the XT-1140.

Question:

Does anyone know if the ACB4000 can control the XT-1140?  What are the
jumper settings required on the XT-1140?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers from chilly Ottawa,
...Maarten (smeg@bnr.ca)

ps. Xt-1140 format.dat entry would be also be handy if someone has it.

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berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu (Dire Wolf) (11/28/90)

bnrgate!bigsur!smeg@uunet.uu.net (Maarten Koning) writes:

>This leads me to believe that the ACB4000 is having a hard time with the
>XT-1140.  I have tried every drive select possible on the XT-1140.

>Question:

>Does anyone know if the ACB4000 can control the XT-1140?  What are the
>jumper settings required on the XT-1140?

I have a (non-sun) machine with an ACB4000 running a Maxtor 1140, so they
certainly are compatible.

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