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From: nazgul@utopia.com (Kee Hinckley)
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Subject: Sony NEWS NWS-3250 and SCSI Drives
Date: 2 Aug 1994 23:23:07 GMT
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My apologies for breaking in here in English, but I can't find
any other appropriate group, and the number I have for Sony in
the US is disconnected.

I have the NWS-3250 (portable, MIPS R3000) running 4.1R (which
I gather is the Japanese version of the OS, the US people I 
spoke to a few years ago were running System V).

I'm having a couple problems.

o I put a Seagate ST31200N 1gig drive on as an external drive. 
It's a SCSI2 drive.  The system hung when trying to access it
at boot time.  I _was_ able to install the OS on it, but
every access to the drive got a "SEL timed out" message along
with some text about some interrupts (11 and 8 I think?).  If
it's useful, I can dig up the details.  However, once installed,
it still wouldn't boot due to the hang problem.

o Possibly related.  I installed an older 240 meg drive on
the system (Quantum, SCSI1).  This works, however I'm getting
lots of "vmunix: rs0: fifo overflow" messages and various
partitions on both drives keep getting corrupted.  Is there
some setting on the internal drive or a dip switch somewhere
that I should be flipping?  Is it internally terminated or
something?  Or is there a problem with the SCSI controller
and newer drives?

o Does anyone know where I can get (or at a minimum, what kind
to ask for) cables for the SCSI and parallel ports?  I have
one SCSI cable, but no parallel cable, and I have a friend
with a 3250 who has neither.

Many thanks!

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Kee Hinckley                                               617/721-6741
nazgul@utopia.com			http://www.utopia.com/home.html

I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.