simon@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Simon Hackett) (02/06/91)
If I want to put some ST506 drives onto an ACB4000 or ACB4070, I have the impression that there is some scsi magic I need to do in order to write the ST506 drive's geometry onto a block on the disk somewhere, so the controller is able to deal properly with SCSI requests. I'm using the ACB's on old sun workstations. Can anyone tell me if: (a) I do need such magic, and if so where to find out what the magic is? (b) If I'm using Sun's "format" program, does it do the needed magic for me when I specify the drive geometry inside format, or does this special record still need to be written somehow? Any sources for technical information on the adaptec cards would be appreciated. I own several of these cards but have absolutely *no* data for any of them. Cheers, Simon Hackett {----------------------------------------------------------------------------} { Simon Hackett, Communications/Systems, University of Adelaide, Australia } { E-mail: simon@itd.adelaide.edu.au } { Phone: (Australia) 08 228 5669 Fax: (Australia) 08 223 6245 } { "Unix is a registered bell of AT&T trademark laboratories." } {----------------------------------------------------------------------------}