battan@sequent.com (Jim Battan) (03/12/91)
I'm trying to get a Maxtor XT8380S Series 2 (~660MB 5.25" SCSI disk) working on a NeXT Cube running NeXTStep 2.0 off the OD. Wishfully, I just put the disk in the Cube and booted up the OS. No luck; the system doesn't see it. I'd guess I've got incorrect jumper settings (I bought this disk directly from Maxtor). Does anyone have a quick reference guide to the correct settings for this configuration? As usual, e-mail me your replies and I'll summarize. Thanks in advance. -- Jim Battan - Sequent Computer Systems battan@sequent.com or uunet!sequent!battan +1 503 578 5129
battan@sequent.com (Jim Battan) (03/16/91)
In article <1991Mar11.193452.13760@sequent.com> I wrote: >I'm trying to get a Maxtor XT8380S Series 2 (~330MB 5.25" SCSI disk) working >on a NeXT Cube running NeXTStep 2.0 off the OD. Thanks very much to the following for replying: <DWN2@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> Michael D. Callaghan <mikec@wam.umd.edu> cc100np@prism.gatech.edu (Nick Pope) Nick helped me find the SCSI address jumpers (JP 3{5,6,7}) on the Maxtor, and after setting them to address 0 (1 is the preferred address, I think) and making sure the three inline terminators were installed on the drive, the disk was found during boot time. Michael mentioned that he had problems getting this configuration working until he tried a cable from an Atari ST. I just used the cable that came with the 40MB accelerator drive (anyone wanna buy 3 40MB drives?). I booted off the 2.0 OD, ran BuildDisk, and encountered no problems. Kudos to NeXT for BuildDisk; it makes installing new drives a much less painful process than on any other UNIX platform I've used. -- Jim Battan - Sequent Computer Systems battan@sequent.com or uunet!sequent!battan +1 503 578 5129