Micropolis 1578 configuration help needed
Dan Lorenzini
dal%gcm at uunet.uu.net
Wed Jun 27 08:08:20 AEST 1990
I have inherited a Micropolis 1578 drive from a PC user who no longer
wants it, and I am trying to get it working on a Sun system. The drive
had been connected to a Future Domain TMC-870 SCSI controller and was
operational. I connected the drive to a Sun 3/60 using a power supply and
adapter cable stolen from a Sun shoebox. The documentation that I have
for the drive is for installation in a PC and is minimal. Format(8) sees
the drive and I can get the defect list and label it. However, when
trying to format the drive, I get the following messages (repeated
endlessly) a few minutes after beginning the format:
si0: siintr: bus error during dma
last phase= 0x4 (DATA IN)
csr= 0xa507 bcr= 27646 tcr= 0x4
cbsr= 0x45 (DATA IN) cdr= 0xc6 mr= 0x2 bsr= 0x81
target= 0, lun= 0 DMA addr= 0x250c count= 64512 (64512)
cdb= 8 0 0 0 7e 0
Specifics:
Micropolis 1578, P/N DS0006-05-6A
Sun 3/60 Mono, 12 MB, SunOS 4.0.3
I am using the Sun standard format.dat entry for the 1578-15 and the
parameters seem to match the drive specs. If you know how to configure
this drive for Sun, or are aware of any problems with using a drive that
was originally intended for use in a PC, I would appreciate hearing from
you. Thanks.
Dan Lorenzini Greenwich Capital Markets dal at gcm.com
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