Request for help on setting up Syquest removable hard disk
tony cooper
name at portia.Stanford.EDU
Sat Mar 17 11:05:25 AEST 1990
In article <39536 at apple.Apple.COM>, rick at Apple.COM (Rick Auricchio) writes:
>
> 2) When the Syquest media is initialized, there are certain
> "error control" bits that can be set/reset (I don't know
> specifically, but "PER" comes to mind). Anyway, if this
> is set "wrong", A/UX attempts to fix it via Mode Select.
> Sending a Mode-Select with Zero bytes of page info is
> valid SCSI protocol, but the Syquest barfs. One could
> flip this bit via some kind of utility program, though.
>
I wrote such a program. It is called scsi-fix-error-page and is available
from Sumex or from me. It sets the PER bit permanently for each cartridge.
Tony Cooper
tony at popserver.stanford.edu
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