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Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
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To: SDS <gladiatr@sunflower.com>
Cc: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>,
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Subject: Re: no active SCB; BUS DEVICE RESET 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 03 Apr 1999 10:41:00 CST."
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904031036020.311-100000@madeline.boneyard.law
rence.k
s.us>, SDS writes:
> On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Patrick Seal wrote:
> 
> > da0: <MICROP 3243-19   1128RA 28RA> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
> > da0: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing
> > Enabled
> > da0: 4095MB (8388315 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 522C)
> > 
> 
> Patrick,
> 
> Yup.  Gotta love it.  Feel ripped off yet?  I had a Micropolis 2 GB drive
> that had the same problem.  It's the firmware.  And there's nothing that
> can be done as Micropolis is no longer (as you undoubtedly know).  This
> problem is not OS or architecture specific.  I tried the damned thing in a
> SPARC, with different SCSI controllers, a Windows 95 machine (!!!)  and
> finally ended up dumping it in an old 286 w/ an old ISA controller
> running DOS (and it will still periodically crash).  At least FreeBSD offers
> some diagnostic messages (the others would just lock up) 
> 
> It seems that this drive cannot handle dis/reconnects properly.  I fought
> with my drive for 2 years.  Save your strength...

Wouldn't disabling disconnects in the controller setup?


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