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From: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,comp.sys.mac,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: A/UX generic SCSI driver and Syquest 44Mb removable drives
Keywords: A/UX SCSI driver Syquest
Message-ID: <5871@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 3 Jan 89 16:19:41 GMT
References: <4370@portia.stanford.edu> <40443764.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> <eakdo#+=michael@xanadu.COM>
Reply-To: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
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In article <eakdo#+=michael@xanadu.COM> michael@xanadu.UUCP (Michael McClary) writes:

>Suggestion for Apple:  Think seriously about having the SCSI driver save the
>pointers even if the drive doesn't ask you to.  Sure, it means a little more
>code, to support somebody else's bug.  But the bug doesn't manefest under
>finder, so when it shows up under A/UX it looks like YOUR fault, not the
>drive's.

Please don't.  There is a specific use for disconnect without saving pointers,
which is to allow restart of an operation after an error.  This is documented
(in the SCSI standard?  I forget... but I remember reading it).  If the device
is broken, fix it.  But please don't break every other device in order to
cover up one failing (shades of Excel!).

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu)