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From: ksand@Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik, 120dB or more)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: A/UX SCSI driver?
Keywords: scsi silverlining
Message-ID: <13336@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 5 May 91 03:28:25 GMT
References: <1991May3.152215.19034@cbnewsc.att.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1991May3.152215.19034@cbnewsc.att.com> ladd@cbnewsc.att.com (david.ladd) writes:
>I recently got silverlining 5.28, which I like a lot. After partitioning for 
>A/UX, which I plan to get soon, I started playing with the read/write loops
>options to see if I could solve a nagging problem with writes to the drive
>(copying from my internal HD to his new drive causes write errors about
>once every 10MB). I finally settled on a slightly faster read loop, and
>a substantially slower, but seemingly reliable, write loop.  My question
>is this -- will A/UX use the silverlining driver? If not, what kind of
>"read/write loops" will the A/UX driver use? Is the A/UX driver configurable
>in terms of what transfer loops it uses, assuming it exists?


Surprise, surprise, A/UX will not use the MacOs drive stored on the hard
disk. Instead it has it's own general SCSI hard disk device driver.

We are trying to document a lot of issues concerning MacOS and A/UX 
SCSI hard disk issues at DTS, you will expect to see a Tech Note or
so, let us say, real soon now. 

Kent Sandvik


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Kent Sandvik, DTS Rock Lobster
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