Re: The origin of the phrases ATA and IDE [WAS:RE: formatting MFM drives on a IBM PC]

2017-10-02 Thread Jules Richardson via cctech
On 10/02/2017 08:29 AM, allison via cctech wrote: On 10/2/17 8:22 AM, Jules Richardson via cctech wrote: On 10/02/2017 01:46 AM, Alan Perry via cctech wrote: There was a call to form the CAM (Common Access Method) Committee of X3T9.2 (SCSI-2) on 30 Sept 1988 and they first met on 19 Oct 1988

Re: Password reset for ~1998 AIX on RS/6000?

2018-02-03 Thread Jules Richardson via cctech
On 02/01/2018 02:28 PM, Tapley, Mark via cctech wrote: Is there a standard procedure for recovering lost passwords for these systems, or for resetting passwords? I do have physical access to the machine; it’s possible I can find an AIX install disk but it’s *highly* desirable to preserve the

Re: Microvax II 'primer'?

2018-01-23 Thread Jules Richardson via cctech
On 01/22/2018 02:05 PM, allison via cctech wrote: On 1/22/18 2:18 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctech wrote: I can't believe you 'just carry it into the house' all by yourself, unless you are professional athlete. I also have a MicroVax II in the BA123 world box and it has wheels for a reason! The

Re: RS/6000 7043-140 boot floppies

2019-02-19 Thread Jules Richardson via cctech
On 2/18/19 11:49 AM, Alan Perry via cctech wrote: The system does boot the AIX install on one of its hard disks, but this is a recycled system and I don't have usernames/passwords for that install. Does anyone here have a suggestion on how to proceed? If you've got another Unix-a-like (e.g.

Re: VAX & PDP-11 Stuff To Clean Out

2019-11-07 Thread Jules Richardson via cctech
On 11/6/19 12:16 PM, David Coolbear via cctech wrote: M5976-AA KZQSA SCSI Controller Q Hmm, I could sure use one of those... I bought a bunch of QBus boards from my recycler quite some time ago, but the systems that they'd been pulled from were run with SMD drives. Finding a working SMD

Re: Disabling SCSI parity checking to dump disk on ACB4000 MFM-SCSI adapter?

2020-09-24 Thread Jules Richardson via cctech
On 9/23/20 3:28 PM, Michael Engel via cctech wrote: It seems that the problem lies in the firmware of the ACB4000, which doesn´t seem to support some standard commands, e.g. the INQUIRY command. Most recent Linux SCSI drivers seem to use this command. Lack of Inquiry support seems to be quite

Re: Disabling SCSI parity checking to dump disk on ACB4000 MFM-SCSI adapter?

2020-09-26 Thread Jules Richardson via cctech
On 9/26/20 10:56 AM, Al Kossow via cctech wrote: ACB4000s aren't common command set. it expects the driver to tell it the drive parameters I'm possibly/probably wrong, but I thought the ACB-4000 only needs the parameters setting prior to format - I don't know it it has some form of non

Re: Disabling SCSI parity checking to dump disk on ACB4000 MFM-SCSI adapter?

2020-09-26 Thread Jules Richardson via cctech
On 9/26/20 10:32 AM, Michael Engel via cctech wrote: Using DOS might be another option, I seem to hit a roadblock with every Unix version I try... hmm, have a look here: http://ftp.vim.org/ftp/pub/ibiblio/kernel/patches/scsi ... adaptec-40XX-1.02.tar.gz looks like it might do the trick. Use

Re: core matt repair

2021-07-20 Thread Jules Richardson via cctech
On 7/20/21 12:13 PM, pspan via cctech wrote: I worked at a company called DMA located in Amery Wisconsin during the 80's and 90's that did do core mat repair. Yes, the gal that did the work used a scope. She replaced cores and wires. Good luck finding someone to do that work now. If I remember

Re: Compaq Deskpro boards/hard drives from the late 1990s

2021-07-21 Thread Jules Richardson via cctech
On 7/21/21 12:51 PM, r.stricklin via cctech wrote: Regarding your "IDE HDDs were extremely rare" comment, did *anyone* other than Quantum release an IDE drive in that 5.25" form factor? I can't think of any, everything else was 3.5", although some early vendor's drives were the same height as