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From: davidg@lsil.com (Dave Gluss 7518)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: 386BSD, Re: Colorado Memory Systems tape drive
Keywords: IDE, Colorado Memory Systems
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Date: 4 Sep 92 20:20:47 GMT
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I also tried to get documents from Colorado Memory Systems,
specifically about their TC-15 compressing interface board.  The
interface to that board is NOT standard and IS proprietary.  They
(Andy Grilnick at CMS) promised to send me some documentation for
interfacing with a standard floppy controller, but didn't.

The QIC standards committee will send you documentation, but you
have to know what to ask for--they don't know what's in the
documents, only how to send them to you.  The number there is
805-963-3853.  I have asked for QIC-80 rev D and QIC-117.

On another subject I am trying to get my new Maxtor 340A drive to
work as drive 1 with 386BSD--it bombs at the end of newfs with
"wdsetcntlr status 51 error 4".  I added Christoph Robitschko's
patches so I could access the drive.  I also uncommented the line
919 (in isa/wd.c) report on disk geometry-the disk reports 128
bytes/sector???  But everything else seems OK--the setcntrlr call
has 512 bytes/sector.  The bug always occurs at the end of the
newfs, even if I just newfs /dev/wd1a.

Has anyone succeeded at this?

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--Dave Gluss    davidg@lsil.com     408-433-7518