25 Dec
1998
25 Dec
'98
4:15 p.m.
I know it was mentioned here before that the rz23
drives don't autostart.
Does anyone know if older macintosh's (say, an se30) can give the device
start sequence? or if there's any simple way to force the drive to start
anyway?
It's possible to make the drive autostart; it's some sort of settable
option in the drive's firmware. The only program I've seen to manipulate
it, however, is rzdisk on the MIPS-based DECstations. Using rzdisk under
Ultrix, you can configure the drive to spin up on power on. I believe
there's also a version of RZDISK available for Alpha VMS, but I've not
encountered it there.
Roger Ivie
ivie(a)cc.usu.edu
25 Dec
25 Dec
4:54 p.m.
It's possible to make the drive autostart;
it's some sort of settable
option in the drive's firmware. The only program I've seen to manipulate
it, however, is rzdisk on the MIPS-based DECstations. Using rzdisk under
Ultrix, you can configure the drive to spin up on power on. I believe
there's also a version of RZDISK available for Alpha VMS, but I've not
encountered it there.
Roger Ivie
ivie(a)cc.usu.edu
THANK YOU! Armed with that knowledge I discovered DECUS has MACRO source
for a VMS utility called RZ_SPINUP. It configures the drive the same way.
Once I get my 3100 here I can tweak the drives appropriately. :)
--
Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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5:30 p.m.
It's
possible to make the drive autostart; it's some sort of settable
option in the drive's firmware. The only program I've seen to manipulate
it, however, is rzdisk on the MIPS-based DECstations. Using rzdisk under
Ultrix, you can configure the drive to spin up on power on. I believe
there's also a version of RZDISK available for Alpha VMS, but I've not
encountered it there.
Roger Ivie
ivie(a)cc.usu.edu
THANK YOU! Armed with that knowledge I discovered DECUS has MACRO source
for a VMS utility called RZ_SPINUP. It configures the drive the same way.
Once I get my 3100 here I can tweak the drives appropriately. :)
--
Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
5:42 p.m.
THANK YOU!
Armed with that knowledge I discovered DECUS has MACRO source
for a VMS utility called RZ_SPINUP. It configures the drive the same way.
Once I get my 3100 here I can tweak the drives appropriately. :)
--
Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
The scsi command on FreeBSD lets you set the SCSI mode page for spin up
on power on as well...
Bill
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