Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 20:15:01 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), hm@kts.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD updated Installation / Adminsitration Kit Message-ID: <199801300945.UAA03866@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Jan 1998 01:33:16 -0800." <199801300933.BAA26385@hub.freebsd.org>
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> > > > FAILSAFE should be ripped out of GENERIC, at least until we know why it > > > > causes the NCR driver to spit when talking to some tape drives. > > > > Nothing else uses it anyway. 8( BTW I didn't mean to imply that FAILSAFE in the ncr driver wasn't there for a reason, rather that no other drivers seem to use it. > > > I hope you know that it will then be impossible to install and operate > > > FreeBSD on HP3725/28/etc. disks. > > > > At last, a reason. OK, so get someone with one of these disks and a > > Sony DDS drive and let them work out what to do. 8) > > I have the HP disks, but no tape .... *mumble* What is it about the HP disks that's actually important here? The only things that FAILSAFE seems to do are set NCR_DFLT_TAGS to 0 and set CDROM_ASYNC. Is it just that these disks can't handle tagged commands? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\
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