jcurtis@simasd.navy.mil (Jay Curtis) (09/01/90)
I recently installed an Adaptec 1542B scsi controller with a Imprimis
Wren V 385 hard drive. I am using a 33 MHz 386 with 8 meg ram running
SCO Xenix 2.3.3. The Byte Unix benchmarks show a thoughput of less than
100K bytes/sec for sustained reads/rights/copies. I suspect that the
drive read ahead is turned off but have no way of verifying this. What
I am asking for is a copy of the program "scsictrl.exe" written by Roy
Neese of Adaptec. It used to be available on adaptex but since adaptex
is no longer (sigh!).....
Could some kind person either point me to an FTP'able sight where I can
retrieve a copy or uuencode and email it to me?
When I purchased this board, it was accompanied by 1(one) page of
documentation and no software for configuring the attached drives, etc.
I called the Adaptec BBS but this program was not available for
downloading. I tried calling tech support but at 10:00a.m. on a friday,
all I could get was a voice mail system saying that the techs would be
back on tuesday. Ditto Sales department. Seems that the only person
available was someone on the switchboard transferring calls to voice
mail! What ever happened to customer support!? Please don't tell me to
ask the person I bought it from. I work for the Navy. They buy from a
variety of vendors, most of whom are just resellers, not VAR's.
Therefore no support.
Thanks in advance.
--Jay
--
Jay Curtis
jcurtis@simasd.UUCP
{nosc;ncr-sd;ucsd;}!simasd!jcurtis
Of course my opinions are my own... Who would let me speak for them?!larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) (09/05/90)
jcurtis@simasd.navy.mil (Jay Curtis) writes: >I am asking for is a copy of the program "scsictrl.exe" written by Roy >Neese of Adaptec. It used to be available on adaptex but since adaptex >is no longer (sigh!)..... I also am looking for this program - please send me in the right direction when you find a copy of it (I have the same drive and amd wondering the same thing).. -- Larry Snyder, Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN USA larry@nstar - or - nstar!larry@ndmath.math.nd.edu Public Access Unix Site (219) 289-0282 (5 lines/PEP/HST/Hayes-V)
poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) (09/06/90)
In article <1990Sep05.012701.3503@nstar.uucp> larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes: >jcurtis@simasd.navy.mil (Jay Curtis) writes: > >>I am asking for is a copy of the program "scsictrl.exe" written by Roy >>Neese of Adaptec. It used to be available on adaptex but since adaptex >>is no longer (sigh!)..... > >I also am looking for this program - please send me in the right >direction when you find a copy of it (I have the same drive and >amd wondering the same thing).. > > I tried to e-mail, but it bounced. If anybody is interested in these programs, I have them and can e-mail them out. Note, I only have the DOS utilities, not the UNIX ones. Here is what I have... 1540CPU.LIST GRDRIVE.EXE SCSI.EXE SETSCSI.EXE sds3.desc 1540DRV.LIST GREAD.EXE SCSICNTL.EXE readme setscsi.doc GETDEVS.EXE GWRITE.EXE SCSIHA.SYS scsicntl.doc Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276 San Jose, Ca. 95110 (408)437-5254
heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com (09/07/90)
In article <1990Aug31.211751.10553@simasd.uucp> jcurtis@simasd.navy.mil (Jay Curtis) writes: > >I recently installed an Adaptec 1542B scsi controller with a Imprimis >Wren V 385 hard drive. I am using a 33 MHz 386 with 8 meg ram running >SCO Xenix 2.3.3. The Byte Unix benchmarks show a thoughput of less than >100K bytes/sec for sustained reads/rights/copies. I suspect that the >drive read ahead is turned off but have no way of verifying this. What I was told by a Unix consultant that 'read ahead cache' should NOT be enabled on Unix systems. This has something to do with the fact that Unix does its own caching (buffering), and if the drive does caching too, things could get confused in case of a power failure. -- Bill Heiser Work: heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com {decuac,necntc,uunet}!rayssd!tdw201!heiser Home: Bill.Heiser@f240.n322.z1.fidonet.org (Fidonet 1:322/240) The Think_Tank BBS (508)655-3848 1200/2400/9600-HST Other: 75106.2332@compuserve.com Other: heiser@world.std.com (Public Access Unix)
ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) (09/07/90)
In article <2344@sud509.ed.ray.com> heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com writes: > >I was told by a Unix consultant that 'read ahead cache' should NOT >be enabled on Unix systems. This has something to do with the fact >that Unix does its own caching (buffering), and if the drive does >caching too, things could get confused in case of a power failure. > This is why all Unix machines doing Real(tm) work have a UPS (something less that 1/2 :-)). -- ken seefried iii ken@dali.gatech.edu "Vee haf veyz off making you talk...release da veasles..."
richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) (09/08/90)
> >>I am asking for is a copy of the program "scsictrl.exe" written by Roy >>Neese of Adaptec. It used to be available on adaptex but since adaptex >>is no longer (sigh!)..... > >I also am looking for this program - please send me in the right >direction when you find a copy of it (I have the same drive and >amd wondering the same thing).. > Try anon-ftp to uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (128.171.7.2) and get: pub/public/scsicntl.doc.Z pub/public/scsicntl.exe.Z -- Richard Foulk richard@pegasus.com
jon@savant.uucp (Jon Gefaell) (09/08/90)
In article <1990Sep5.170317.24942@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes: > >I tried to e-mail, but it bounced. If anybody is interested in these programs, >I have them and can e-mail them out. Note, I only have the DOS utilities, not >the UNIX ones. Here is what I have... > >1540CPU.LIST GRDRIVE.EXE SCSI.EXE SETSCSI.EXE sds3.desc >1540DRV.LIST GREAD.EXE SCSICNTL.EXE readme setscsi.doc >GETDEVS.EXE GWRITE.EXE SCSIHA.SYS scsicntl.doc > > Damn... Can someone please, pretty please just put these gems in a tar or zip and place them somewheres that us folks can grab 'em? Like a nice ol' anon ftp site? Thanks... I really badly need/want these files, all of them.. -- +----------- Domain? DOMAIN? We Don't Need No Steeeenkin' Domain! -----------+ |I wish I had something interesting to put in my .signature file, but I don't| +-savant!jon@virginia.edu {...}!uunet!virginia!savant!jon jeg7e@virginia.edu-+
jon@savant.uucp (Jon Gefaell) (09/08/90)
In article <1990Sep5.170317.24942@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes: > >I tried to e-mail, but it bounced. If anybody is interested in these programs, >I have them and can e-mail them out. Note, I only have the DOS utilities, not >the UNIX ones. Here is what I have... > >1%40CPU.LIST GRDRIVE.EXE SCSI.EXE SETSCSI.EXE sds3.desc >1540DRV.LIST GREAD.EXE SCSICNTL.EXE readme setscsi.doc >GETDEVS.EXE GWRITE.EXE SCSIHA.SYS scsicntl.doc > > Damn... Can someone please, pretty please just put these gems in a tar or zip and place them somewheres that us folks can grab 'em? Like a nice ol' anon ftp site? Thanks... I really badly need/want these files, all of them.. -- +----------- Domain? DOMAIN? We Don't Need No Steeeenkin' Domain! -----------+ |I wish I had something interesting to put in my .signature file, but I don't| +-savant!jon@virginia.edu {...}!uuned!virginia!savant!jon jeg7e@virginia.edu-+
sl@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne) (09/09/90)
In article <1990Sep8.154839.26275@savant.uucp> jon@savant.uucp (Jon Gefaell) writes: >In article <1990Sep5.170317.24942@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes: >> >>I tried to e-mail, but it bounced. If anybody is interested in these programs, >>I have them and can e-mail them out. Note, I only have the DOS utilities, not >>the UNIX ones. Here is what I have... >> >>1540CPU.LIST GRDRIVE.EXE SCSI.EXE SETSCSI.EXE sds3.desc >>1540DRV.LIST GREAD.EXE SCSICNTL.EXE readme setscsi.doc >>GETDEVS.EXE GWRITE.EXE SCSIHA.SYS scsicntl.doc >> >> >Damn... Can someone please, pretty please just put these gems in a tar or zip >and place them somewheres that us folks can grab 'em? Like a nice ol' anon ftp >site? Thanks... I really badly need/want these files, all of them.. ls -lt van-bc!~ftp/pub/scsi total 1534 drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 144 Sep 7 23:41 tmp -rw-rw-r-- 1 sl private 35238 Sep 6 11:07 scsicntl.fmt -rw-r--r-- 1 sl private 28446 Sep 6 11:06 scsicntl.nroff -rw-r--r-- 1 sl private 80266 Sep 6 11:05 scsicntl.unk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80728 Sep 5 22:31 scsicntl.4.9 -rw-rw-rw- 1 20 news 10395 Jul 19 12:32 list -rw-rw-r-- 2 sl private 55071 Jun 26 14:04 scsi.exe -rw-rw-r-- 2 sl private 55071 Jun 26 14:04 SCSI.EXE -rw-rw-r-- 2 sl private 32516 Jun 26 14:03 GWRITE.EXE -rw-rw-r-- 2 sl private 32516 Jun 26 14:03 gwrite.exe -rw-rw-r-- 2 sl private 32446 Jun 26 14:03 GREAD.EXE -rw-rw-r-- 2 sl private 32446 Jun 26 14:03 gread.exe -rw-rw-r-- 1 sl private 1868 Jun 26 14:01 sds3.desc -rw-rw-r-- 1 sl private 2544 Jun 26 14:01 1540drv.list -rw-rw-r-- 1 sl private 1713 Jun 26 14:01 1540cpu.list -rw-rw-r-- 1 sl private 482 Jun 26 14:01 readme -rw-rw-r-- 2 sl private 1543 Jun 26 14:00 scsiha.sys -rw-rw-r-- 2 sl private 1543 Jun 26 14:00 SCSIHA.SYS -rw-rw-r-- 1 sl private 939 Jun 26 14:00 setscsi.doc -rw-rw-r-- 1 sl private 9682 Jun 26 13:50 setscsi.exe -rw-rw-r-- 1 sl private 28446 Jun 26 13:47 scsicntl.doc -rw-rw-r-- 1 sl private 32130 Jun 26 13:34 grdrive.exe -rw-rw-r-- 2 sl private 15413 Jun 26 12:48 getdevs.exe -rw-rw-r-- 2 sl private 15413 Jun 26 12:48 GETDEVS.EXE -rw-r--r-- 2 20 bin 3979 Oct 26 1989 @0F1F.adf -rw-r--r-- 2 20 bin 3979 Oct 26 1989 @0F1F.ADF I also have scsicntl.exe version 5.1 but it doesn't seem to work. I'll keep digging. Internet access: FTP van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca [128.189.233.155] Login as user "anonymous", use any password. Some restrictions apply. Dialup Access: PEP 604-939-4782 2400 604-939-4756 UUCP login: nuucp passwd: nuucp guest login: guest passwd: guest The guest login supports downloading with sz(1), which supports the XMODEM, YMODEM and ZMODEM protocols. Note that uucp requests should be directed to the ftp directory: uucp van-bc\!~ftp/pub/afile . I believe that the guest account can now access all of ~ftp. -- Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca ubc-cs!van-bc!sl 604-937-7532(voice)
poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) (09/11/90)
In article <1990Sep8.114833.9225@pegasus.com> richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes: >> >>>I am asking for is a copy of the program "scsictrl.exe" written by Roy >>>Neese of Adaptec. It used to be available on adaptex but since adaptex >>>is no longer (sigh!)..... >> >>I also am looking for this program - please send me in the right >>direction when you find a copy of it (I have the same drive and >>amd wondering the same thing).. >> > >Try anon-ftp to uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (128.171.7.2) and get: > > pub/public/scsicntl.doc.Z > pub/public/scsicntl.exe.Z > > I have uploaded the ENTIRE set of DOS utilities for the AHA154X boards to cica.cica.indiana.edu:pub/pc/misc/aha1542.zip. Also get aha1542.doc and read it first. Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276 San Jose, Ca. 95110 (408)437-5254
bote@csense.uucp (John Boteler) (09/11/90)
From article <1990Sep5.170317.24942@sj.ate.slb.com>, by poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger): > In article <1990Sep05.012701.3503@nstar.uucp> larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes: >>I also am looking for this program - please send me in the right >>direction when you find a copy of it (I have the same drive and >>amd wondering the same thing).. > > I tried to e-mail, but it bounced. If anybody is interested in these programs, > I have them and can e-mail them out. Note, I only have the DOS utilities, not > the UNIX ones. Here is what I have... > > 1540CPU.LIST GRDRIVE.EXE SCSI.EXE SETSCSI.EXE sds3.desc > 1540DRV.LIST GREAD.EXE SCSICNTL.EXE readme setscsi.doc > GETDEVS.EXE GWRITE.EXE SCSIHA.SYS scsicntl.doc Great. Since Russ has them and Larry wants them, why doesn't Russ send them all to Larry, who can then place them on his system for the rest of us. Whadda ya think? -- John Boteler bote@csense.uucp {uunet | ka3ovk}!media!csense!bote SkinnyDipper's Hotline: 703-241-BARE | VOICE only, Touch-Tone(TM) signalling
barton@holston.UUCP (Barton A. Fisk) (09/19/90)
I kinda like the idea of a tar, zip, or compressed or whatever archive with all files available in one swoop. Thanks, Bart -- uucp: holston!barton pseudo: barton@holston.UUCP