Is Future Domain SCSI card any good?
Bill Vermillion
bill at bilver.UUCP
Sun Mar 11 12:29:04 AEST 1990
I went to a potential client site the other day to install some serial
drivers and talk about what software he needed for a system he had
purchased from his mini/mainframe vendor (the min/mf is a Burroughs
and the Xenix box is an Acer).
This was my second attempt. The first time I tried to install SCO
Xenix and found that the Future Domain controller requires a kernel to
be built on the machine after installing a 506/Esdi drive, and gen'ing
a bootable SCSI kernel and then removing that drive and replacing with
the SCSI controller/drive. Since the people who sold this to him
didn't install the Xenix, I tried by building a kernel on an AT
machine and had problems.
The machine is then taken back to the dealer who installs the Xenix
but not the serial drivers for a digiboard and returns the machine.
I tried to build a new kernel, and got sector not found errors from
the system, and had a non-bootable kernel. I booted with the old
kernel and it started to come up, then error after error during the
time it tries to run rc.d.
The hard drive is a Miniscribe and the controller is the Future Domain
860. The computer is an Acer 386 box with 5 megs of memory.
Since I normally don't work around clone type machines I have a
general question. Is this combination, which appears to have been
bought with low dollar in mind, a viable system. My gut reaction says
the Future Domain controller and Miniscribe SCSI are the heart of the
problem. I did a badtrack to force a read/write and force the SCSI
to remap bad tracks, and it took 1.5 hours to complete. It seems to
creep compared to others I have seen.
Any/all comments would be appreciated, by posting or mail, whichever
you feel is more appropriate. For mail use the address in the sig.
Thanks
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Bill Vermillion - UUCP: uunet!tarpit!bilver!bill
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