Re: How to use a WD1002S-SHD MFM - to - SCSI (SASI?) adapter card

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">2GB"? This machine is 20 megs...supposedly won't handle a larger drive
(like 40 megs) without drivers or firmware revision...drivers are all I
hope it needs. I don't have a 68000 OS-9 system to experiment with.

John :-#)#

At 11:56 AM 20/09/2002 -0700, Paul Swan wrote:

>John,
>
>I presume that if you plug in a new SCSI disk onto the 9100 there is a
>problem?
>
>The 5380 driver for OS-9 comes bundled with OS-9. The release at the
>time may not have been able to handle drives >2Gb though. As a first
>step, I'd suggest trying an older SCSI hard disk <2Gb in size and see if
>that works.
>
>Worst case it may be that the Fluke software itself is tied specifically
>to this drive configuration.
>
>Is the drive readable on standard 68K OS-9 System? Has anyone tried
>that?
>
>Regards,
>
>Paul.
>
>
>John Robertson wrote:
> >
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > The problem is we want to update the 9100 so it can handle larger (newer)
> > SCSI drives. Have you any suggestions for writing NCR5380 SCSI drivers for
> > OS-9? We really don't want to try and save the old WD1002 card or it's MFM
> > drives - the drives are way too old to be reliable...
> >
> > John :-#)#
> >

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Received on Fri Sep 20 15:59:54 2002