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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!usc!news!lsi!mhost!up199!davidg From: davidg@lsil.com (Dave Gluss 7518) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: 386BSD, Re: Colorado Memory Systems tape drive Keywords: IDE, Colorado Memory Systems Message-ID: <1992Sep4.202047.3019@lsil.com> Date: 4 Sep 92 20:20:47 GMT References: <1992Sep4.043955.19904@engr.uark.edu> Sender: news@lsil.com (news caster) Reply-To: davidg@lsil.com Organization: LSI Logic Microprocessor Group Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: up199 I also tried to get documents from Colorado Memory Systems, specifically about their TC-15 compressing interface board. The interface to that board is NOT standard and IS proprietary. They (Andy Grilnick at CMS) promised to send me some documentation for interfacing with a standard floppy controller, but didn't. The QIC standards committee will send you documentation, but you have to know what to ask for--they don't know what's in the documents, only how to send them to you. The number there is 805-963-3853. I have asked for QIC-80 rev D and QIC-117. On another subject I am trying to get my new Maxtor 340A drive to work as drive 1 with 386BSD--it bombs at the end of newfs with "wdsetcntlr status 51 error 4". I added Christoph Robitschko's patches so I could access the drive. I also uncommented the line 919 (in isa/wd.c) report on disk geometry-the disk reports 128 bytes/sector??? But everything else seems OK--the setcntrlr call has 512 bytes/sector. The bug always occurs at the end of the newfs, even if I just newfs /dev/wd1a. Has anyone succeeded at this? --- --Dave Gluss davidg@lsil.com 408-433-7518