ANy joy with 3rd party SCSI disks on DS3100?

[Stan Gibson]

In article <270379F7.4803 at orion.oac.uci.edu> Mike Iglesias <iglesias at draco.acs.uci.edu> writes:
>
>I just check one of our 5000s with a CDC drive on it, and it appears that
>this bit is not in the same place as it is on the Maxtor drives (page 8
>of the drive parameters), so I guess you're out of luck using rzdisk
>on CDC drives.

CDC drives use mode select page 38 ( bit 4 of byte 2)to enable/disable 
read-ahead. This was commonly used among vendors of SCSI-1 drives. The
SCSI-II spec defines the read-ahead page a page 8. The Maxtor drives
support this page. Some of the XT8000's series Maxtors support BOTH pages.