On 09/24/20 18:00, cctech-request at classiccmp.org wrote: I have a sun 3 system with acb4000 and suspect the protocol was not fully sorted in that time frame. They can be fussy about what they will talk to, ime. Would lend a hand if you are in the uk, but otherwise, if you have an early Sparc system, I would try that, as it would probably still support the older controllers. Sparcstation 1 or 2 + Sunos probably has the required entries in the format utility, format.dat file. An early pci or isa Adaptec card might be worth trying as well, under Suse 11.4 or similar, as that has a good disk utility... Chris