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- From: toreh@bootes.sds.no (Tore Haraldsen)
- Subject: Re: 386BSD & AHA1542B & CDC94171-9 Disk problem
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.162155.24728@ulrik.uio.no>
- Sender: news@ulrik.uio.no (Mr News)
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- Organization: Statens Datasentral A/S, SDS, Norway
- References: <ninhuvo@sgi.sgi.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:21:55 GMT
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- Yes, my problem is different. I discovered that after discovering how
- I had goofed up:
-
- I DON'T HAVE A 1542B, I GOT A 1542A Rev.D w/3.07 proms.
-
- which is quite a different animal. David Eyre mailed me and explained
- it all, and I think I got the gist of it:
-
- The driver supplied with 386BSD-0.1 uses opcodes that have no support
- in the older boards, namely opcodes 3 & 4, << scatter/gather read/write
- with retun of residual length >>.
-
- Mr.Haug also ventilated some worries in that direction. I have put up
- the problem in comp.periphs.scsi, and asked if we hapless owners of
- 1542A adapters can get a rom upgrade...
-
- In the meantime David Eyre is trying to mail me an updated boot disk.
- (We have no public ftp places, any of us). If there are more people
- needing a modified Tiny, I will try to put it onto one of the offical
- servers (tell me the correct one, so it will spred itself nicely).
-
- Mail me, you with the same problem, and I will tell you when and where
- it is available, maybe I even could announce it HERE!!
-
- -- Tore Haraldsen
-