Re: Running RZ55's on non-DEC machines?

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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:11

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In article <TYTSO.92Aug12010651@SOS.mit.edu>, tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o) writes:
> I've been told that the RZ55 will not work if you try connecting it to a
> SCSI card on a PC --- say, an Adaptec 1542B.  Is this true?  If so, can
> someone tell me why?
> 
> I tried hooking up a RZ55 to a Macintosh, and tried running the SCSI
> Manager on it.  It didn't work; nearly every operation it tried to do
> returned the Sense code error "Drive not ready".  Is there some sort of
> DEC proprietary command that the drive is expecting before it will
> start working?

No, it's expecting a standard SCSI command to spin up before it starts
working. Most everyone but DEC assumes the drive spins up at power on, so
they don't send the command.

Roger Ivie
ivie@cc.usu.edu

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From: ivie@cc.usu.edu (CP/M lives!)
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Subject: Re: Running RZ55's on non-DEC machines?
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