teac fc-1 scsi floppy on linux ?

[Peter L. Peres]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 05:53:35PM -0400, Peter L. Peres wrote:
>> I was given a fc-1 and I'm trying to see if it works under linux (2.4
>> series kernels, aha2940uw scsi card, internal bus, automatic termination).
>>
>> It is detected correcty as removable disk scsi but read and write leads to
>> errors. write causes 03/31/00 (during format with the aha bios utility),
>> and read yields 0E/14/00 (syslog dusing read attempt with dd). The error
>> codes above are given as sense key/code/qualifier .
>>
>> Does anyone run such a drive under linux or *bsd, and if so, with what
>> adapter and adapter settings. Also were there problems setting it up. This
>> drive is suspect of being faulty.
>
> According to http://www.seasip.info/VintagePC/floppies.html the teac
> fc-1 was designed for unix workstations, and not really as a PC floppy
> drive, and thinks making it work is pretty unlikely.  Some other pages
> indicated programing docs for the drive says it requries a special scsi
> command sent to switch into 1.44M mode.
>
> A few hints found:
> Disable HD emulation of removable drives (many adaptecs have this bios
> option).
> Disable disconnect on the drive (scsi bios option)
> Force to 10MB/s or 5MB/s max (scsi bios option)
>
> The commands: scsiformat, scsiinfo, scsi-config, and such may also be
> helpful.

Ok, thanks. Apparently these work with some suns so there must be a way.

Peter
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