SUMMARY: help with an RZ28

From: Daniel A. Monjar <dmonjar_at_worldnet.att.net>
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 09:16:24 -0400

problem synopsis:
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I have a spare RZ29b that I want to put in my PC. I have an Adaptec ISA to
Fast-SCSI adapter that see the drive and identifies it as a DEC RZ29b
device and puts it on drive D:. But when I use the adapter bios to perform
media scanning of the drive it immediately reports back an error. Did DEC
does something to the drives to make it more/less than a Seagate Barracuda?
 Is my quest to use this drive on my PC doomed to fail? Or is the drive
dead?

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Answer:  DEC changes these drives to not spin up by default but to require
the START UNIT command from the controller.  I can change a jumper setting
to make the drive spin at power up.  There was also a discussion of drive
sector lengths and the fact that the Adaptec's don't like non-512 sectors
thanks to:
Paul Bunn, BEI
Ross Alexander
Paul Kitwin
John Francini
David A. Nicholson
Hernando Barragan
Martyn Johnson
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Daniel A. Monjar, dmonjar_at_worldnet.att.net
"All opinions are mine alone... and possibly my children's."

Received on Wed May 21 1997 - 15:40:11 NZST