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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.


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Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                 Reliable computers for FreeBSD



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