[SPARCbook] Wanted ADTX adapter

[Michael Parson]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:25:59AM -0400, Michael wrote:
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>> There were at least two different models of these IDE<->SCSI adapters.
>> The earlier ones had the 8 gig limit, and were reportedly slow.  There
>> was a newer one that supported more of the ATA extensions & speeds,
>> which got the disks up to at least the SCSI-2 speed of the bus they
>> were connected to.
>
> Then I have the slow kind:
> sd0 at scsibus0 target 3 lun 0: <ADTX, AXSITS2532U 011D, E4.0>disk
> fixed
> sd0: fabricating a geometry
> sd0: 2067 MB, 2067 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4233600
> sectors
> sd0: sync (200.00ns offset 7), 8-bit (5.000MB/s) transfers
> ( swapped out the 6GB drive because I had SCSI DMA problems - turned out
> to be bad RAM though so I'll put it back in ) As you can see it does
> only 5MB/s ( not that the drive could saturate even that... )

Pulled from an earlier msg I posted to netbsd/sparc list, booting one
of your kernels on my 3gx:

sd0 at scsibus0 target 3 lun 0: <IC25N020, ATCS04-0, 1.06> disk fixed                                                               
sd0: 19077 MB, 38760 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 39070080 sectors                                                        
sd0: sync (100.00ns offset 15), 8-bit (10.000MB/s) transfers                        

>> They also did not have the 8 gig limit.  I don't know how
>> large you could go, but the one I got let me use a 20 gig drive w/o
>> any problems:
>>
>> $ uname -a
>> SunOS tadpole 5.6 Generic_105181-34 sun4m sparc Tadpole_S3GX
>>
>> $ df -k
>> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0        61615     17960     37494  33% /
>> /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s4     18641505   5815821  12639269  32% /usr
>> /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s3       246463     45172    176645  21% /var
>> swap                    234172         8    234164   1% /tmp
>
> Nice. I want one of these ;)

I got mine from caldrives.com, but they don't list it any more.  It
disappeared within a few months of my purchase.  I paid $150 for it.
Googling around for the model-number, I find this one, for 11,000 yen:

http://online.century.co.jp/BittradeTest/e_shop/chb25int.html

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>> I'm planning on changing this over to NetBSD once your patches are in
>> the main distribution.  I've been meaning to ask, will they make into
>> 2.1? or 3.0?
>
> They're all in -current, with varying degrees of maturity.

Okay, I'll wait till it's in a -release, I've never been one for
tracking current.  I'll still be happy to boot the occasional build from
you for testing though, anything I can do to help test it out. =)

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org