On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Doc Shipley wrote: Thanks for the info. I've had this for several months now and have a recent need to read/write 9-track tapes. So it finally got dug out from under a pile of crap and I decided to give it a whirl, since the top-loading Ciphers I have are currently MIA. I set it up, powered it up, it came up to ready, so far so good. I inserted a tape and hit load and it worked like a champ. So last night I was attempting the next phase which was hooking it to a PC. The Adaptec controller didn't see it on the SCSI chain. I began fiddling with the diagnostics and found the ID configuration option. It's currently set at ID 0 and I can't change it (I get the "Illegal" response any time I try to change it). I googled about and found some scant information that diagnostic test 1 should be run, so when I did it comes back as a faiulre. I have no idea if this is supposed to be working or not, but it apparently seems to have a problem of some sort, the least of which is that it's not being recognized on the SCSI chain (though I haven't yet tested the SCSI adapter with another known good device to see if maybe the SCSI card is faulty). A service manual would be ideal ;) -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

Eric Smith wrote: OK, I'd like to ask, where did you get your info? All the reseller sites list the 9348-012 as SE, and the one piece of IBM documentation I've found lists some other drives as differential, but shows the 9348-012 as simply SCSI. Ahh, here, in comp.unix.aix, the recommended SCSI adapter for the 9348 on PCI RS/6000 is FC 6208. That's a single-end adapter. Doc