Fuji Swallows (m2344k) with 4.3

[Craig D. Rice, St. Olaf College]

We recently installed two Fujitsu Swallow 4s (m2344k) on our VAX 11/780
running mtXinu (4.3) UNIX.  The m2344k is an "unsupported" disk, but
uses MSCP (Mass Storage Control Protocol) so we attempted to talk to
it with the uda driver pretending it was an RA. 

Upon bootup uda1 is recognized, and the two Swallows (on ra3 and ra4)
are found okay; we can even newfs them without any real problems.
We used diskpart -p and diskpart -d to generate the partition table
and the disktab entry for the m2344k - the disktab entry is:
	m2344k:\
		:ty=winchester:ns#68:nt#27:nc#624:sf:so:\
		:pa#15884:ba#8192:fa#1024:\
		:pb#66880:bb#8192:fb#1024:\
		:pc#1145460:bc#8192:fc#1024:\
		:pd#15884:bd#4096:fd#512:\
		:pe#307200:be#8192:fe#1024:\
		:pf#444108:bf#8192:ff#1024:\
		:pg#769080:bg#8192:fg#1024:\
		:ph#291346:bh#8192:fh#1024:

The problem lies in after newfs'ing everything, we try to restore
a filesystem (restore x) - eventually we will get hard errors on
the device, and if we keep at it, the system will hang.

Does anyone have any thoughts on what we're doing wrong?  We will
be installing a new version of mtXinu's operating system within
the month (which has Tahoe support, which, from what I hear, will
make this sort of thing a lot easier! :-)...

Please email responses. 
Thanks!
Craig
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Craig D. Rice		Academic Computing Center UNIX Systems Specialist
cdr at stolaf.edu		St. Olaf College
+1 507 663-3631		Northfield, MN  55057   USA