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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1.5R and EXB-8200 hangs on write
Date: 15 Mar 1997 22:32:17 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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scott@zorch.sf-bay.org (Scott Hazen Mueller) wrote:

> Mar 13 23:33:22 zorch /kernel: (aic0:4:0): "EXABYTE EXB-8200 263H" type 1 removable SCSI 1
> 
> It's living on its own controller (Adaptec 1522A) with nothing else on that
> bus.  The system disk is on an Adaptec 2940.

The aic driver suffers from major bitrot.  Is there any good reason
why you don't put it on the AHA2940's bus?  The 1522 controller
doesn't do any good anyway, even if its driver were in better shape.
It's PIO only, so you burn a lot of resources while the 2940 probably
won't even notice the light tape load.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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