Re: W9xNT MCA Adapters - SPOCK-206


Let there be speed for Windows NT. Official SPOCK-206/NT release :

08 02 06

August 2, 2006: www.members.aon.at/mcabase/pub/files/spock2nt.zip

What's new since the test release? Added support for 8EF8 and 8EFD, fine
tuned parameters to increase the quality of communication, SCSI-II commands
are directly sent to the addressed device. Highly improved LED panel
displaying READ, WRITE and SEND commands and their opcodes, e.g. "READ *
03", see README.TXT. Optimized installation, A:\SPOCK2NT is the directory.

Sincere thanks to all SPOCK-206 NT testers: Casolai, Louis Ohland, Jim
Shorney and William Walsh. Test reports included in README. To all the rest,
thanks for the entertainment.

Gentlemen, update your drivers:

SPOCK-206 supports the following IBM MCA SCSI Host Adapters in high
performance busmastering mode with 32-bit addressing on Windows NT:

ID Adapter
----------------------------------------
8EF8 IBM Expansion Unit SCSI Controller
8EFC IBM Fast/Wide SCSI-2 Adapter/A
8EFD IBM 7568 Industrial Computer SCSI Adapter
8EFE IBM PS/2 SCSI Adapter
8EFF IBM PS/2 SCSI Adapter w/Cache
FFFF Planar SCSI IBM PS/2 Models 9556/9557

Commands, natively supported by the adapter are bypassed and SCSI-II
commands are issued directly to the addressed device. Thus, all of the above
adapters are SCSI-II compliant when operated under SPOCK206. SCSI messaging
is handled by the adapter.

Planar SCSI subsystems are detected and supported by SPOCK26, even when the
subsystem identifies itself with an FFFF ID.

At each boot, Windows NT might log a SPOCK-206 Controller Error, Event-ID
11, in the System Event Log. This has error has been traced to the command
SCSIOP_REQUEST_BLOCK_ADDR which either could not be completed or rejected by
the host adapter. This command is issued after finishing the driver init
phase and its failure does not impair the correct operation of the SCSI
subsystem resp. SPOCK206.






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