poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) (03/05/90)
I have been unable to get a Xylogics XY 753 to work properly with a CDC XMD-II (9772) 850 drive. It appears as though they are not agreeing on how to access the extended cylinders (> 1023). The manual on the XY 753 states that it ONLY supports the SMD-E spare line (tag 4) as providing the 10'th cylinder address bit. However no matter what switches I set on the drive (SMD-E mode, Extended addressing), it always seems like the 10'th bit is getting ignored, in other words, it is OK if formatted to 1024 cylinders, (the drive as 1064), but as soon as I format the extended cylinders, it formats over cylinders 0 thru 39 causing problems since the cylinder headers are now wrong. I tried it with two different XY 753 controllers, two different sets of cables, two different drives. The same drive works fine with a Rimfire 3200 controller. The XY 753 works fine with CDC Sabre drives (9720-850 and 1230). Anybody done this before? BTW, this is on a 3/260, but I don't think that makes a difference since I also tried it on a 4/370. Here is my format.dat entry, but I think the problem is hardware, not software. disk_type = "CDC XMD-II 9772 (850)" \ : ctlr = XD7053 \ : ncyl = 1062 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 1064 : nhead = 16 : nsect = 82 \ : rpm = 3600 : bpt = 50400 : bps = 606 Thanks for any suggestions. Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276 San Jose, Ca. 95110 (408)437-5254
dan@breeze.bellcore.com (Daniel Strick) (03/12/90)
I once asked a CDC customer service engineer about this. He verified the suspicion: the older CDC 9772 disk drives do not support specification of the high order cylinder address bit during cylinder select (aka "tag-1") using the "tag-4" signal line. The Xylogics 753 cannot address the last 40 cylinders on these drives. Dan Strick, aka dan@bellcore.com or bellcore!dan, (201)829-4624
turcotte@asterix.drev.dnd.ca (Guy Turcotte) (03/14/90)
dan@breeze.bellcore.com (Daniel Strick) writes: >I once asked a CDC customer service engineer about this. He verified the >suspicion: the older CDC 9772 disk drives do not support specification of >the high order cylinder address bit during cylinder select (aka "tag-1") >using the "tag-4" signal line. The Xylogics 753 cannot address the last >40 cylinders on these drives. Somebody sent me a message 2 weeks ago about the fact that Xylogics may have a firmware revision of the 753 controller that address that problem. (I think it's revision 2.2) Guy Turcotte turcotte@asterix.drev.dnd.ca