map@christine.fac.cs.cmu.edu (Mark Puskar) (10/24/90)
Has anyone had any luck using non-IBM disks on the RT? If so, please let me know what disks you got to work and how you did it? Thanks. Mark Puskar
brunner@bullhead.uucp (10/24/90)
In article <10840@pt.cs.cmu.edu> map@christine.fac.cs.cmu.edu (Mark Puskar) writes: >Has anyone had any luck using non-IBM disks on the RT? >If so, please let me know what disks you got to work >and how you did it? Thanks. Mark and everyone else, I've gotten the Chalmers scsi driver to support disks intended for the RS/6000 which, by some quirk :-), I can get easier than I can get non-IBM drives. These are rebadged Maxtor drives, and I know that someone else has used the same driver for a Wren. The drive works fine, we'd some problems which appeared to be processor-specific but turned out to be the effect of too many debug printf's in the driver, and it presently interferes with the token-ring driver. When I fix that I'll post the driver and related materials. On a realted topic, the accompaning streamer driver is in use here to support 8mm tape (Exabyte), it presently interferes with the floppy drive(s), but I consider this a reasonable trade off -- lose a 1.2Mb storage device and gain a 2Gb device. Both are in production use here. Expect this stuff out next week. #include <std/disclaimer.h> Eric Brunner, Consultant, IBM AWD Palo Alto (415) 855-4486 inet: brunner@monet.berkeley.edu uucp: uunet!ibmsupt!brunner trying to understand multiprocessing is like having bees live inside your head.