Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 01:04:01 +0100 (BST) From: Roger Brooks <R.S.Brooks@liverpool.ac.uk> To: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com> Cc: Ken Harrenstien <klh@us.oracle.com>, ken@plutotech.com, port-i386@netbsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD SCSI driver? Another soul lost in Deskpro XL limbo... Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.990330005224.10973A-100000@adminb.liv.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <199903292332.SAA17938@ghost.whirlpool.com>
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On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Andrew Gillham wrote: >Actually doesn't this part have some 8bit backward compatibility mode? >I vaguely recall something like this from reading the datasheets. My >brother has a Deskpro XL, but the pcscp driver didn't exactly work >last time he tested it. It looks like the driver was changed in January, >so it may work better now. I'd suggest trying one of the 1.4alpha >snapshot boot floppies, and see what happens. It should work, provided you aren't trying to write tapes with blocksize > 4 KB. I back-ported the pcscp driver to NetBSD 1.3.2, using the code from -current around 26/1/99. The patch which Izumi Tsutsui (who wrote the pcscp driver) submitted a few days ago (kern/7252) has fixed the problem writing large tape blocks. But even without that patch, the driver appears to work for everything else apart from tape writes > 4 KB. For example, I was able to duplicate my EIDE system disk to a borrowed SCSI drive connected to my Tekram DC-390 and boot and run from it for several hours with no problems whatsoever. Roger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Roger Brooks (Systems Programmer), | Email: R.S.Brooks@liv.ac.uk Computing Services Dept, | Tel: +44 151 794 4441 The University of Liverpool, | Fax: +44 151 794 4442 PO Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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