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From: dirk@altger.UUCP (dirk)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.intel,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: MaxTor Drives for Prime EXL316
Keywords: MaxTor SCSI Prime EXL316
Message-ID: <989@altger.UUCP>
Date: 26 Sep 88 09:38:03 GMT
References: <424@fciva.FRANKLIN.COM>
Reply-To: dirk@altger.UUCP (dirk)
Organization: DK-Soft, Offenbach, FRG
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>An intel386 box, Prime's first entry into the unix market.
Prime has been selling unix boxes for a long time now. They have
a UNIX port for the series 50, a System V for a RISC and many BSD. 

>My question is:  Does Prime do anything
>special to the drives before they distribute them?  Can I just buy the
>MaxTor drive, run fmtdisk and mkvtoc and be ready to mount the partitions?
There are currently two drives supported for the EXL, the Maxtor
and a 90MB Micropolis. You should lookup in the /usr/include/sys/scsi.h
what brand the driver supports. As the SCSI gives no information about
the disks size, the driver sends INQUIRY to the disk, to figure
out the brand and vendor. This is needed for the fmtdisk or install
program. If have been playing around with a Seagate 251 (40MB) with
a WD1003-SCS SCSI to ST506 controller. This did not work, but I
was able to format the disk by my own program.

Well, there is nothing done with the drive, otherwhise they wont meet
SCSI. There is just one thing to check, if you use the Micropolis,
you have to mount it upside down (turn it 180 degree), due they
swapped the SCSI bus.

cu,
dirk :-)

PS: If you've got 700 MB of disk, you should think about a better
	backup then the tape. There is a 1,2 GB GigaTape driver available,
	mail me if your are interested.