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From: tin@smsc.sony.com (Tin "Man" Le)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: st01 driver for ISC2.2?
Keywords: st01 scsi
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.021828.3397@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 9 Jan 91 02:18:28 GMT
References: <1991Jan05.234012.20635@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp, San Jose, CA
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In article <1991Jan05.234012.20635@chinet.chi.il.us> randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes:
>
>	Has anyone got the st01/2 scsi driver by Tatu Ylonen as modified
>by Tin Le working with ISC 2.2?  It compiles, installs, and partitions
>just fine, but when I try to do a mkfs on it, it crashes/reboots the system.
>I am using a Quantum 80 meg drive from an old Apple AU/X system.  The drive
>works fine with a st02 under DOS.  I am using a st01 with the rom removed
>jumpered for INT 5 and memory address c800-cbff.  The partitions software
>reports 156000 blocks, but if I try to do a mkfs of anything over about
>1000 blocks, the computer just reboots, no error messages.

   Hmmm, I am running my news spool on a WREN III (150MB), which is more
   than 1000 blocks.  The entire drive is used for news, and I had no
   problem with mkfs.  It's been running since last August with a full
   news feed.

   I know there's some timing/interrupt problem with the driver, but they
   only show under rare conditions (like I said, I've been using it full
   time under a full news feed without problems).  Recently, there has
   been several drivers for the ST0x posted to alt.sources (one for DOS
   and the other for *NIX).  I am looking at integrating fixes from these
   drivers and adding SCSI tape support (as soon as I can afford to buy
   a tape drive).

   From your description, do you mean that you can mkfs a partition with
   less than 1000 blocks?  Successfully?  I've had panics in the beginning
   when I was using the wrong /dev partition to mkfs on.  Make sure you
   use the char device, and the correct partition - /dev/rscsi0 I believe.

-- Tin

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