From: jstump@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (John E. Stump) Subject: new seagate patches Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 15:52:56 GMT
I had a quick moment last night to test out the patches to the seagate
driver from Eric Y. to hopefully fix the ST-01 + Syquest rebooting
problem.
Halleluah! NO more reboots!! I was able to write and read from my
Syquest cartridge.
There were a few problems, though. I did the following:
$ mount /dev/sda1 /user
$ mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
$ cp /mnt/* /user
This "seemed" to work, but I got a rash of messages like:
"scsi0: unexpected interrupt."
This only happened when the cp was reading from the floppy. Strange.
Then I did the following disk intensive command:
$ cp --verbose --recursive /usr/* /user
This also seemed to work, but I saw a message like this pop up once:
"dumping sense buffer: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SCSI disk error: host 0 id 0 ..."
The rest of the message I didn't see because it scrolled off the screen
(I shouldn't have used --verbose).
Anyway, that was all the time I had to work with these new patches. I
didn't even have time to verify that all the files copied over were
correct, just a few I tested.
One other note: when the buffer cache is being flushed to the Syquest
(which takes awhile), the system is completely locked up; not even
keystrokes are echoed. I guess this means the seagate driver is not
interrupt driven?
Oh well, progress is being made and I can now use my Syquest. Thanks
Eric for your hunting down of this problem!!
my particulars:
generic Intel 486SX-25
8 MB RAM
120 MB IDE
40MB ST-01/Syquest drive
stock .99pl3 w/ seagate.diff applied, on top of SLS .98 system
thanks y'all
john
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