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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: AHA1542B vs Sysgen SC4000 controller under BSD386
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!ames!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 17:52:59 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Message-ID: <9210051253.45@rmkhome.UUCP>
References: <1ao4umINNaua@network.ucsd.edu> <1992Oct5.100219.28945@tfs.com>
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In article <1992Oct5.100219.28945@tfs.com> julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes:
>In article <1ao4umINNaua@network.ucsd.edu> brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) writes:
>>I managed to score a Sysgen SC4000 SCSI-to-QIC-02 controller, an Adaptec
>>Stand-Alone-Tape-Controller QIC-02-to-QIC-36 board, and an Archive 5945C 
>>drive.  This bizarre combination is what Sun used to use in their really
>>old (Sun-2/68010 days) tape backup boxes.
>>
>>When I connect this mess up to my Adaptec controller and try to bood
>>386BSD with Julian's SCSI package, the error light on the SC4000 comes
>>on, and the computer just keeps telling me that command timed out.
>>The light on the Adaptec just stays on.
>>
>
>I wonder if the SC4000 is really compatible with modern scsi.
>Does the BIOS find the tape controller? (do you have the BIOS enabled?)
>just for laughs, try the old scsi system and let me know
>what happens.

I think you're right.  I believe that the SC4000 is a SASI controller,
which is a subset of SCSI.

Also, the Archive SAC controller is notorious for being finicky.

>I'm sorry that that is not much help.
>But it sounds as if the low level protocols are failing.
>Something is wedging the scsi bus.
>That's not something the software can easily do.
>
>(If it makes you feal better I'm having the same problem
>with a particular disk and the aha1742 card (aha1542 loves it).
>
>
>>Has anyone gotten this or a similar setup to work?  What firware
>>revisions are in your controllers, and what jumper/switch settings did
>>you use?
>>	- Brian
>
>julian
>
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