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From: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.brewich.com>
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Subject: Re: Problems with Archive 2150S on ST-01
To: matt@megaweapon.zigg.com
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 12:14:47 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971209093136.1154A-100000@megaweapon.zigg.com> from Matt Behrens at "Dec 9, 97 09:57:40 am"
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Hello,

Your problem is the ST-01 not the 2150S.  This controller is more
or less in the tree to do CD-ROM installs and not much else.  
It is worthless for anything related to speed (no dma, no ints nothing).

Gary

Matt Behrens wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently hooked up an Archive 2150S to a Seagate ST-01 to replace my
> dead Wangtek.  (Yes, I know, these are really old pieces of hardware, but
> they were free...) :)  It *seems* to work okay, except of course that I
> can't get the darned thing to stream.
> 
> Why won't this command work?
> 
> 	cat file.tar > /dev/rst0
> 
--SNIP
> 
> Dec  9 09:52:32 megaweapon /kernel: sea: blind block read timeout
> Dec  9 09:52:32 megaweapon last message repeated 94 times
> Dec  9 09:52:32 megaweapon /kernel: sea0/3/0 unexpected target disconnect
> Dec  9 09:52:32 megaweapon /kernel: sea0/3/0 (st0) timed out
> Dec  9 09:52:32 megaweapon /kernel: st0(sea0:3:0): UNIT ATTENTION
> Dec  9 09:52:34 megaweapon /kernel: sea0/3/0 (st0) timed out
> Dec  9 09:52:36 megaweapon /kernel: sea0/3/0 (st0) timed out
> 
--SNIP
> 
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