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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!agis!gatech!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!winternet.com!news From: glen@subzero.winternet.com (Glen Overby) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Future Domain 8 Bit did you get one working? Date: 11 Jun 1995 19:43:33 GMT Organization: BORG Institute of Technology Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3rfh15$k2s@blackice.winternet.com> References: <3r7p3p$drb@dale.ee.pdx.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: subzero.winternet.com Keywords: Scsi Controller Help Brian O'Leary <briano@ee.pdx.edu> wrote: >I was wondering if anyone has beeen able to get a Future Domain 8 bit >scsi controller to work with any Free BSD release after 2.0R? The system During one of the -SNAP releases, a new, completely rewritten driver replaced the one in 2.0R. While that was a good move, IMHO, it causes me problems with my Seagate ST-02 controler (same guts as your FD) + Seagate ST296N (80MB). Even the 2.0 driver isn't all that stable on my hardware and has been slowly corrupting the /usr filesystem; today it took out libexec :-( After much tracing of the new driver, I found the problem to be in the data copying. This is assembler code which I can't personally find any problem with. I recoded the assembly-level copy in C (same algorithm) and it works better but slower. I can bring the system up to single-user but it panics quickly when apparently going to swap space. Glen B