Wanted: driver software for Maxtor RXT-800S SCSI WORM drive

[philpem]

Does anyone have a copy of the driver software for the Maxtor RXT-800S SCSI WORM drive? I believe it's a rebadged Ricoh drive.

Having read around, it seems like the driver needed is Corel OptiStar, which sits atop CorelSCSI. It seems like Optisys Optidisk / Optidriver might work too. But anything for the RXT-800S or RXT-800HS is likely to be useful.

Thanks
Phil

 

[doshea]

Sorry, I don't have any such drivers. Are you sure that you need additional software on top of CorelSCSI though? Out of interest, I did a search on DiscMaster and found http://discmaster.textfiles.com/bro..._Collection_Disc_6.TOAST/Windows/CorelDos.zip, which seems to be CorelSCSI for DOS (despite being in a "Windows" directory in a "Mac collection"). ~DRIVE.LST includes some sort of seemingly machine-readable information about the drive, I would assume that !UTL_WRM.LZH contains WORM utilities, and !SCSIUTL.LZH includes a WORMFREE.COM, so there seem to be a few things in there which appear to support WORM drives. I get the impression from https://archive.org/details/macworld00unse_49/page/184/mode/2up?q=optistar that OptiStar provides a nice user interface for viewing WORM media; perhaps CorelSCSI by itself lets you access the same things via the command line?

 

[philpem]

A small update on this - I've managed to find a copy of Optisys OptiDriver. For anyone who doesn't have it, it's copy protected, but a version of it is in the "WBIZ" collection on Archive.org.

When you install it, it'll ask which filesystems you'd like it to support. If you select all of them, it'll crash with a "not enough buffers" error on startup, and corrupt the MS-DOS memory space. It's probably best to only enable a couple of them -- and a few may conflict (e.g. all the FAT ones).

I haven't had a chance to try CorelSCSI yet.

Unfortunately it seems like my drive is faulty or jumpered wrong - see other thread: https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?t...0wl-worm-drive-jumpers-docs-software.1252142/