From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 14 10:52:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA22543 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 10:52:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from ns.dsms.com (root@dsms.jsnet.com [207.82.57.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA22538 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 10:52:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hbarker@rhiannon.sm.dsms.com) Received: from fs.sm.dsms.com (fs.sm.dsms.com [199.89.215.10]) by ns.dsms.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA19700; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 10:52:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from rhiannon.sm.dsms.com (rhiannon.sm.dsms.com [199.89.215.11]) by fs.sm.dsms.com (8.8.7/8.8.4sm1) with SMTP id KAA07728; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 10:52:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by rhiannon.sm.dsms.com (NX5.67g/NX3.0S) id AA01103; Fri, 14 Nov 97 10:51:50 -0800 Message-Id: <9711141851.AA01103@rhiannon.sm.dsms.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.0 v146.2) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=NeXT-Mail-2128060069-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <199711141548.KAA17951@ussenterprise.ufp.org> X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 4.0 (Enhance 2.0b4) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.146.2) From: harold barker Hbarker Date: Fri, 14 Nov 97 10:51:48 -0800 To: bicknell@ufp.org Subject: Re: AHC / SCSI UPDATE Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: hbarker@dsms.com References: <199711141548.KAA17951@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk --NeXT-Mail-2128060069-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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 > --- mailto:hbarker@dsms.com Do or do not, there is no try, Yoda --NeXT-Mail-2128060069-1 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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 > --- mailto:hbarker@dsms.com Do or do not, there is no try, Yoda --NeXT-Mail-2128060069-1--