Subject:     OS 8.5 Feedback
Date:        10/21/98 1:26 PM
Received:    10/21/98 1:45 PM
From:        Brian Keith Light
To:          xlr8yourmac.com

Mike,

I haven't seen any reports anywhere with people running REMUS 1.4 Lt having
problems so I thought maybe we need to get the word out. It may only
pertain to NUBUS mac's but I'm afraid to try this on my production PCI
class macs.

I have two nearly identical 601 machines.  Both are equiped with Atto
Silicon Express IV fast wide SCSI 2 cards.

I have a  7100/66 with the startup drive on the SE 4 that the installworked
flawlessly and I can boot from the Fast Wide drive 2.2 gig Atlas 2.  The
Apple driver actually updated the FWB HDT 2.5.2 driver that was on the
drive.  It runs  well and all software I have tried works flawlessly.

I also have a 8100/110 that starts up from the internal apple bus.  This
machine has 2 Quantum Atlas 2 Fast Wide drives as a RAID using REMUS 1.4
lite.  I can't get this to boot as of yet without removing the SE 4 from
the computer.  This is the case no matter if  I am booting from the 8.5 CD
or the Internal SCSI Startup drive.

Both SE4's use the most current ATTO software and the only difference is
the RAID.  I can unplug the SCSI connection to the drive and the machine
boots fine so the SE4 is still being sold and seems to work fine alone. I
also tried to use Conley Softraid 2.0 but it doesn't work on NUBUS machines.

My two drives got corrupted after I unmount them in REMUS and tried to do a
normal format under OS 8.1 they could not be seen by anything but REMUS
software and that couldn't use the drives in any way what so ever either.
I couldn't format them at all on the NUBUS mac but moving them to the s900
I was able to low level format with HD Toolkit 2.5.2 and they are both fine
now.

The Softraid 2.0 works fine in my S900 where I have a RAID setup with 4
Quantum Atlas 2 drives on both the SuperMac E100 SCSI card and an ATTO PCI
with ADS card.  Of course you can't set drives up in softraid 2.0 under
8.5.  By the way the Softraid has a new homepage at
http://www.softraid.com/  and they are promising an upgrade by 11/15/98!

I will keep you informed on any resolution I get around this as I continue
playing around with the 8100/110.  I plan to try the Apple RAID software to
see if this works as this supports NUBUS mac's.


Brian K. Light