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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!sunic!ugle.unit.no!nuug!nntp.uio.no!bootes.sds.no!toreh From: toreh@bootes.sds.no (Tore Haraldsen) Subject: Re: 386BSD & AHA1542B & CDC94171-9 Disk problem Message-ID: <1992Jul21.162155.24728@ulrik.uio.no> Sender: news@ulrik.uio.no (Mr News) Nntp-Posting-Host: 192.68.77.217 Organization: Statens Datasentral A/S, SDS, Norway References: <ninhuvo@sgi.sgi.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:21:55 GMT Lines: 25 Yes, my problem is different. I discovered that after discovering how I had goofed up: I DON'T HAVE A 1542B, I GOT A 1542A Rev.D w/3.07 proms. which is quite a different animal. David Eyre mailed me and explained it all, and I think I got the gist of it: The driver supplied with 386BSD-0.1 uses opcodes that have no support in the older boards, namely opcodes 3 & 4, << scatter/gather read/write with retun of residual length >>. Mr.Haug also ventilated some worries in that direction. I have put up the problem in comp.periphs.scsi, and asked if we hapless owners of 1542A adapters can get a rom upgrade... In the meantime David Eyre is trying to mail me an updated boot disk. (We have no public ftp places, any of us). If there are more people needing a modified Tiny, I will try to put it onto one of the offical servers (tell me the correct one, so it will spred itself nicely). Mail me, you with the same problem, and I will tell you when and where it is available, maybe I even could announce it HERE!! -- Tore Haraldsen