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From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Subject: [386BSD] RLL controller summary
Message-ID: <1992Dec4.164743.3108@sci34hub.sci.com>
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 16:47:43 GMT
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Well, I received five responses to my request. Here is a summary:
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From: "James Jegers" <uunet!miller.cs.uwm.edu!jimj>
I could be mistaken but any RLL should work with unix. since
they are standard(generally) so as long as you get a working/decent
one, it should work.
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From: "Robert Knier " <uunet!miller.cs.uwm.edu!knier>
I have 2 RLL drives (a 68Mb and a 65Mb) and one SCSI (LXT340SY). The
controller for the RLL drives is an adaptec 2372a controller. More importantly
to get 386BSD to recognize both RLL drives, I made a patch for the wd.c code
to read the CMOS settings at startup. If you would like a copy of the
patch, let me know.
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From: uunet!du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de!veit (Holger Veit)
Normally, all standard RLL controllers should work ... :-).
Before I went to use a larger IDE drive, I successfully used a
DTC 5287 controller with a ST4144R disk.
Also the DTC7287 (1:1 instead of 1:2) is known to work.
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From: uunet!optigfx.com!mrm (Mike Murphy)
386bsd works fine with a Seagate ST22R controller. The drives I've used are:
1) Seagate ST4096 MFM drive formatted RLL at 1024x9x26.
2) Seagate ST1106 RLL drive formatted RLL at (I forget the numbers, and the
drives are home sitting on a shelf and not on a machine because
I replaced them with 2 of the drives just below :-)
3) Maxtor XT1140 formatted RLL at 1024x15x26. These work just fine.
It can be a pain using RLL if your BIOS doesn't support it. If you have
problems, send E-mail.
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From: uunet!damon.ccs.northeastern.edu!jtsilla (James Tsillas)
I've had success with a DTC 2729.
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Thanks for the info; I'll probably pick up a Seagate controller from a
local place in the near future.
--
Gary Heston SCI Systems, Inc. gary@sci34hub.sci.com site admin
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