mliddle@hailstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Micheline Liddle) (04/28/91)
I recently purchased a Archive 2150S but unfortunately a manual for the unit
was not provided. Since Archive (Irwin's) price is rather steep (> $35 ) I'll
try the net first.
I'm running on the following platform:
386-20 w/ 13MB RAM
Adaptec 1542 SCSI Host Adapter (SCSI Address 7)
Miniscribe 3180S (330 MB) Hard Disk (SCSI Address 0, 1542 external connector)
Archive 2150S Tape Drive (SCSI Address 1, 1542 internal connector)
Firmware Level -005 (As Reported by SCSICNTL.EXE)
ISC UNIX 2.02 and MS-DOS 3.30
Now for the questions:
1. When running Roy Neese's SCSICNTL utility (Version 5.1) the following error
message appears at startup.
Start: Tape Drive 1 error reported
Sense key 02: Not Ready
Error Code 00: No additional information
I hope this is only a jumper setting problem but at this point we
don't know what the proper settings are.
The drive was supplied with the following jumper settings (pardon the
ASCII graphics):
Looking at the back of the drive, circuit card down.
------
RxD * * TxD | * * | CF2 * * ID2
------
* * DIA * * CF1 * * ID1
------ ------ ------
| * * | PEN | * * | CF0 | * * | ID0
------ ------ ------
I think I've got the ID[0-2] jumpers figured out (SCSI IDs 0-7)
but I have no idea what the rest are.
3. The drive was supplied without termination resistors. Are they required
when connected to the 1542's internal SCSI connector? The Miniscribe
3180S disk has terminators installed but is connected to the 1542's
external connector. If the terminators are needed what value should
the be? Any suggested vendors?
4. If anyone has a spare 2150S manual they'd be willing to part with please
send email to the address below.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
M. Liddle
mliddle@ocf.Berkeley.EDUken@dali.cc.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) (04/29/91)
In article <1991Apr28.012314.20602@agate.berkeley.edu> mliddle@hailstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Micheline Liddle) writes: >I recently purchased a Archive 2150S but unfortunately a manual for the unit >was not provided. Since Archive (Irwin's) price is rather steep (> $35 ) I'll >try the net first. The $35 dollar manual is the OEM manual which you probably don't need. When I called up Archive to get my 2060Ss set up, they sent me a little 5 or 6 page manual called something like Quick Setup Guide or something (I'm at home so I don't have the thing in front of me). This guide pertty much just shows the jumpers and what they are for, which is really all you need to know in most cases. I got mine free, your mileage may vary. > > The drive was supplied with the following jumper settings (pardon the > ASCII graphics): > > Looking at the back of the drive, circuit card down. > > ------ > RxD * * TxD | * * | CF2 * * ID2 > ------ > > * * DIA * * CF1 * * ID1 > > ------ ------ ------ > | * * | PEN | * * | CF0 | * * | ID0 > ------ ------ ------ > > I think I've got the ID[0-2] jumpers figured out (SCSI IDs 0-7) > but I have no idea what the rest are. > Okay...the RxD/TxD jumper is really a little serial port used for factory testing. Not useful for anything else. I don't remember what DIA and PEN stand for, but on the known-working- under-SCO-Unix Archive 2060S I have here, neither is installed. CF0-2 set, as I recall, the maximum block size that can be transfered over the SCSI bus to the drive at one time (is that right?). You are currently set for 16K. I had to set mine to 32K to get them to work properly. This setting is all jumpers shorted. You are correct that ID0-ID2 are the SCSI address. You are currently set at ID 1. >3. The drive was supplied without termination resistors. Are they required > when connected to the 1542's internal SCSI connector? The Miniscribe > 3180S disk has terminators installed but is connected to the 1542's > external connector. If the terminators are needed what value should > the be? Any suggested vendors? Yes...if you mount it internally, you will need to terminate the drive. NOTE! You will also have to remove the terminators from the controller board. They are located right next to the extrernal SCSI connector on the 1452x's (x = {A,B}). I don't recall the values of and sources for the terminators. Ithink, though, that you should be able to use the resistors that you remove from the controller. Hope this helps... -- ken seefried iii "I'll have what the gentleman ken@dali.cc.gatech.edu on the floor is having..."