Request for help on setting up Syquest removable hard disk

tony cooper name at portia.Stanford.EDU
Sat Mar 17 11:05:25 AEST 1990




In article <39536 at apple.Apple.COM>, rick at Apple.COM (Rick Auricchio) writes:
> 	
> 	2) When the Syquest media is initialized, there are certain
> 	    "error control" bits that can be set/reset (I don't know
> 	    specifically, but "PER" comes to mind).  Anyway, if this
> 	    is set "wrong", A/UX attempts to fix it via Mode Select.
> 	    Sending a Mode-Select with Zero bytes of page info is
> 	    valid SCSI protocol, but the Syquest barfs.  One could
> 	    flip this bit via some kind of utility program, though.
> 
I wrote such a program. It is called scsi-fix-error-page and is available
from Sumex or from me. It sets the PER bit permanently for each cartridge.

Tony Cooper
tony at popserver.stanford.edu



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