karl@cgdisis.ucar.edu (Karl Sierka) (02/24/90)
I just bought a NeXT. Really nice machine. I also bought a Hitachi DK515C-78 disk. I had a cable made but I have no easy way of really testing it. The drive is terminated internally. When powering up, the cube does not see the disk. It also does not see the 40M accelerator drive. There is an error message issued after the SCSI self test. Error code 65. I looked this up in the manual, "Cannot load counter with test pattern". Anyone seen this and know what it means? I hooked the disk up to a Sun 3/60, and it was able to see the drive. (I used a different cable) Does anyone know where I can order a cable that will work? (DB25 to DB50, not Centronics) Is there some way to get into an extended diagnostics mode? Is the NeXT SCSI 1,2 or 3? Does NeXT SCSI need parity enabled? (help, help, help...) Another question - does anyone have SLIP running? Is there someplace I can dig for more information? I tried running the BSD program slattach, for which there is a man page on the NeXT but no program. (I grabbed the source from uunet.) Is this program going to be the way to use slip? It appears that one may run slattach, then ifconfig the tty line as an ethernet controller. Is this true? Thanks in advance, karl Karl Sierka sierka@ncar.ucar.edu or karl@cgdisis.ucar.edu (128.117.24.18) 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80301 (303)-497-1338 Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are not those of my employer.