Running RZ55's on non-DEC machines?

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From: Theodore Y. Ts'o
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 05:06

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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?
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