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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: ISC disk driver bug? (Was Disks Hang Under 2.0.2 SCSI add WD1006SRV2)
Message-ID: <1931@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 19 Dec 89 14:17:56 GMT
References: <654400003@cdp> <6700047@adaptex> <258C899B.28434@paris.ics.uci.edu> <1926@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <258D393B.1670@paris.ics.uci.edu>
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Reply-exos:@crdgw1:To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)

In article <258D393B.1670@paris.ics.uci.edu> baxter@ics.uci.edu (Ira Baxter) writes:

| >  Karl Denninger posted a note on jumper settings with the 1006 which
| >could cure your problem.
| >-- 
| 
| There are only two interesting jumpers on a WD1006 according to my WD
| documentation: W1-1,2, handling "latched" mode (unfortunately, the
| docs *don't* say what this does), and W1-5-6, which disables cache
| control.  If the cure is disabling the cache, then the point of buying
| the controller was wasted.  

  Sorry I mentioned it. I don't have time to reinvent solutions.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon