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- From: hph@hphbbs.E.open.de (H.P. Heidinger, Essen)
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- Subject: Re: Coherent v4 SCSI and ST-506
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- Organization: HPHBBS-COHERENT User Conference/Germany (CUC-Ger)
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 10:08:11 +0100
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- Michael Faurot (mfaurot@phzzzt.uucp) wrote:
- : udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk) writes:
-
- : : The problem is the
- : : bus on/off timing, if the DMA controlls the bus for a too long time
- : : the CPU can't read out the FIFO of the UART. This problem ist greater
- : : under UNIX then under DOS, because handling the interrupts is much
- : : more expensive.
-
- : Has Coherent's Adaptec SCSI driver been fixed yet, or are we in the
- : RSN stage?
-
- The kernel from the DDK (Release 68) seems to have the busmastering
- quirk fixed.
- The floppy problems are gone at least, i.e. the drives' heads are no
- longer banged against the spindle at end of volume.
- The massive character loss due to disruption of tty-I/O actions
- still exists.
- The ADAPTEC driver does still not provide 'globals' that might be
- patched to site specific values, although it was nuts to do so.
-
- Regards, Peter
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