mikec@wam.umd.edu (Michael D. Callaghan) (12/09/90)
In article <1990Dec8.224738.21815@wam.umd.edu> I write: >Well, folks... I'm at a loss. I have my Maxtor XT-8760S hooked up >inside my Cube, the SCSI cable is good (tried it in the Mac; worked >fine). The SCSI address is set to 0. The termination is in place (all >three packs). Yet, scsimodes /dev/rsd0a still reports "unable to open >/dev/rsd0a." Yes, the drive is powered up. Yes, the drive works fine >in the Mac. I don't know what to do. Any help will be appreciated. The problem is unsolvable, so it would seem. Apparently, the Maxtor in the Cube isn't a stock Maxtor drive. It works, though, (seemingly) if you make it an external SCSI drive! I don't get it, myself. But as I type this, BuildDisk is going about its business without a problem. Any comments on this oddity will be welcomed... MikeC -- ___________________________________________________ Michael D. Callaghan,MDC Designs, University of Merryland mikec@wam.umd.edu
izumi@fugitive.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) (12/09/90)
In article <1990Dec9.005624.25578@wam.umd.edu> mikec@wam.umd.edu (Michael D. Callaghan) writes: >In article <1990Dec8.224738.21815@wam.umd.edu> I write: >>/dev/rsd0a." Yes, the drive is powered up. Yes, the drive works fine >>in the Mac. I don't know what to do. Any help will be appreciated. > >The problem is unsolvable, so it would seem. Apparently, the Maxtor >in the Cube isn't a stock Maxtor drive. It works, though, (seemingly) >if you make it an external SCSI drive! I don't get it, myself. But I've read somewhere, maybe in this newsgroup, sometime ago that Maxtor drives sold for Macs have special ROMs to deal with somewhat non-standard SCSI protocol used in that machine. Thus, Maxtor drives taken from Macs would not work on NeXT's or for that matter on Suns?. What is a stock Maxtor drive is a matter of a point of view. I tend to think that Mac version is non-stock. In any case, if you intend to order Maxtor drives from a 3-rd party vendor, ask the vendor to ship a drive for Sun machines, not the one for Macs. I bought a stock Maxtor XT-8760S from a 3-rd party vendor this way, and didn't fortunately have any problem installing in a Cube. The drive, though, came formatted with 512-byte sectors, so I lost a bit of space for that. Izumi Ohzawa, izumi@violet.berkeley.edu
SLVQC@CUNYVM (Salvatore Saieva) (12/14/90)
In article <1990Dec9.032747.6299@agate.berkeley.edu>, izumi@fugitive.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) says: > [text deleted] >In any case, if you intend to order Maxtor drives from a 3-rd party >vendor, ask the vendor to ship a drive for Sun machines, not the one >for Macs. >I bought a stock Maxtor XT-8760S from a 3-rd party vendor this way, >and didn't fortunately have any problem installing in a Cube. >The drive, though, came formatted with 512-byte sectors, so >I lost a bit of space for that. > >Izumi Ohzawa, izumi@violet.berkeley.edu Isn't there a formatting program around for these Maxtor drives so you can get the 1024-byte sectors? Sal. ------- Salvatore Saieva Internet: slvqc@cunyvm.cuny.edu Queens College, Academic Computer Center BITNET: slvqc@cunyvm.bitnet 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, N.Y. 11367 DeskNet: (718) 520-7662 awk, sed, grep, lex, yacc, make, >, <, |,... ``I got the Power!''