Re: INFO-MICRO Digest V93 #5

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From: Mergenthal.ES_AE
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:49

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Re: <RALPH.93Jan21125856@cubitus.laas.fr>, Ralph P. Sobek --

>I am using an AdSCSI host adaptor and I have both ICDBOOT 6.0.2 and
>6.0.3.  ICD sees the controller and reports:
>
>        0  EMULEX MD21/52    ESDI
>
>The drive is a Micropolis 1325.  When I power up the shoebox LED 3 of
>the Emulex controller blinks.  What's the significance?  The drive
>sounds like it comes up fine.  When I call ICDFMT is sends out a
>sensing signal for SCSI devices, and the diode light on the front of
>the drive flashs but ICDFMT does not get an answer.

Sounds like a royal mismatch of components!  The AdSCSI host adapter
implements the SCSI interface; the Emulex appears to implement the ESDI
interface; and a Micropolis 1325 is an MFM drive.

You will need an MFM controller card for that disk drive.

--Wade Mergenthal
mergenthal.es_ae@xerox.com

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