From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 9 17:47:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA04497 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 17:47:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vector.jhs.local (slip139-92-42-161.ut.nl.ibm.net [139.92.42.161]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA04474 Tue, 9 Apr 1996 17:46:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhs@localhost) by vector.jhs.local (8.7.3/8.6.9) id CAA10222; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 02:28:59 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 02:28:59 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199604100028.CAA10222@vector.jhs.local> To: hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Adaptec 1542A Users From: "Julian H. Stacey" Reply-To: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: Vector Systems Ltd. Address: Holz Strasse 27d, 80469 Munich, Germany Phone: +49.89.268616 Fax: +49.89.2608126 (pending modem change) Web: http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ Mailer: EXMH [version 1.6.5 95 12 11], PGP available Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk If both of these are true for you: - Don't have login access on a system with an Adaptec 1542A SCSI Controller. - Aren't interested in scsi or kernel. Save Time & SKIP THIS MAIL ! If only one line is true, or neither is true ... read on please :-) (1542B-only-owners should ignore this, I too have a B, & it shows no problems) This is an Appeal For Email Addresses of the few remaining programmers who have user access (root access un-necessary) to systems with Adaptec 1542 A SCSI controllers, with at least 2 scsi disc drives, on FreeBSD-2.1 (ie CD release), stable, or current, (2.0.5 & earlier probably also relevant) I have found a bug, involving sd1 & sd2 & sd3 (but not sd0), asserting 8 * 0xFF at the beginning of random blocks aligned at 0x1000 intervals. I want to clarify if it's a generic FreeBSD bug or unique to my card. I have written a smallish testblock.c & .man I would like to send you, that runs in user mode (no root access or S bits or access to devices required), it's well behaved & writes a test pattern to a normal file, I would like you to mail me resulting error messages if any. Volunteers can be assured it's only 5 minutes work to run the test prog, it won't zap your disk, & it may catch a nasty bug you didn't even know you had :-) Please email me your names privately, without bothering to CC lists. Thanks ! (PS apologies for having dual posted current & hackers, but I need the non overlapping subsets). Julian -- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ (PGP available)