Conference mvblab::alphaserver_4100

616.0. "Problem with Autosensing Qlogic" by ALFSS2::WHITTINGTON (Where is my Starbuck) Wed May 21 1997 17:30

    From customer:
    We currently have troubel interfacing with our FTR3050 imagesetter
    using
    Qlogic SCSI host adapter. When our RIP software sends a mode select to
    the
    imagesetter's hard disk to set certain printing parameters for the next
    output, and the imagesetter is busy, it returns a check condition. This
    check confition is detected by the Qlogic board, but the sense data was
    not
    automatically read in (with autosense set). Our software relies on this
    sense data to work correctly. This problem does not happen when using
    the
    NCR SCSI that comes with the system. A workaround might be to rewrite
    the
    software to send a request sensse following a check condition to get
    the
    sense data. Howevere, we feel that the autosense should work with
    Qlogic.We have been shipping this same Qlogic board on other platforms, 
    (intel running NT and MAcintosh) without this problems.
    
    Configuration:
    system:alphaserver 4100 (1-4 CPU)
    os:     windows nt 4.0
    service pack sps.2
    bio: ver 5.2
    qlogic board:scsi-2 fast wide differential
    qlogic driver: ql10wnt.sys,version4.0 (Microsoft's and included with
    system CD.)
    
    thanks for any input. I am not familiar enough to know if the native
    Qlogic driver in Alphabios 5.28 is affecting this or not.
    
    Ed
    NT/Backoffice
    

Hi,

Which Qlogic adaptor are you using? the only one that is officially supported is
the KZPDA which is single channel single ended.

	Dennis

    Sorry for the delayed response. He is using a KZPDA.
    
    Ed