Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 15:05:17 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: mrl@teleport.com (Mostyn/Annabella) Cc: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG, mrl@teleport.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: SCSI death in -current with DAT Message-ID: <199603192305.PAA21675@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199603191934.LAA25294@linda.teleport.com> from "Mostyn/Annabella" at Mar 19, 96 11:34:07 am
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> > > > > Its an aic7xxx driver problem related to parity checking which I > > recently enabled. It seems that you get harmless parity errors > > when you have both a wide and narrow bus attached to the controller > > at one time. I'm still investigating, but people seeing this problem > > should just disable parity checking in SCSI-Select. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Thank you very much. With parity switched off by the controller, > the DAT worked fine backing up a wide drive using a March 17th > -current system. > > J"org, thank you for the fixed-block setup for the DAT - I didn't > use it but I'll keep it just in case. The Archive/Conner Python 28388 DAT drives are variable block length capable drives, this patch is not needed, and should not be applied to any system. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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