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Date:      Fri, 14 Nov 97 10:51:48 -0800
From:      harold barker Hbarker <hbarker@rhiannon.sm.dsms.com>
To:        bicknell@ufp.org
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: AHC / SCSI UPDATE
Message-ID:  <9711141851.AA01103@rhiannon.sm.dsms.com>
In-Reply-To: <199711141548.KAA17951@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
References:  <199711141548.KAA17951@ussenterprise.ufp.org>

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If the person responsible for the code in question will email me, i will  
ship/open for login a machine that exibits the broblem.


You wrote:
> I have now received many replies to my post
> about the AHC / SCSI problems.  There is an amazing
> pattern here.  It would seem there are a great many
> users of Micropolis Disks and DAT tape drives who
> see the exact same problems I see with several adaptec
> controllers (2940, 1540, and others).  These same
> people report no problems with these devices on
> Buglogics or NCR controllers.  Several people also
> report they see no problems on systems with an
> Adaptec Segate or Adaptec Quantum pairing.
>
> So, I think there is some issue here with
> Micropolis / DAT drives and the Adaptec card/driver.
> What I am at a loss to is how to track this down.
> How do I go about verifing that it is a driver bug,
> or a SCSI incompatability between the Micropolis and
> the Adaptec?
>
> --
> Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org
> System Administration - Network Design
> TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org
>
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 If the person responsible for the code in question will email me, i will
ship/open for login a machine that exibits the broblem.


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You wrote:
> I have now received many replies to my post
> about the AHC / SCSI problems.  There is an amazing
> pattern here.  It would seem there are a great many
> users of Micropolis Disks and DAT tape drives who
> see the exact same problems I see with several adaptec
> controllers (2940, 1540, and others).  These same
> people report no problems with these devices on 
> Buglogics or NCR controllers.  Several people also
> report they see no problems on systems with an 
> Adaptec Segate or Adaptec Quantum pairing.
> 
> So, I think there is some issue here with 
> Micropolis / DAT drives and the Adaptec card/driver.
> What I am at a loss to is how to track this down.
> How do I go about verifing that it is a driver bug,
> or a SCSI incompatability between the Micropolis and
> the Adaptec?
> 
> -- 
> Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org
> System Administration - Network Design
> TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org
> 
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    mailto:hbarker@dsms.com            Do or do not, there is no try, Yoda
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