On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Matthew Jacob wrote:

> Ummmm- what's probably happening here is that the Qlogic f/w is sending
> a WIDE DATA XFER message- and instead of just doing a message reject,
> the HP drive is aborting the whole command.
>   ...
> As an interim solution, around line 494 in isp.c where it does
> a MBOX_SET_TARGET_PARAMS, change the line that has:
> 
> 	mbs.param[2] = sdp->isp_devparam[i].dev_flags << 8;
> 
> to
> 
> 	mbs.param[2] = DPARM_DISC|DPARM_PARITY|DPARM_RENEG|DPARM_ARQ << 8;

Thanks for the suggestion. I've tried this out, and the console error
messages go away, but any attempt to open() the tape drive devices still
fails with EIO. I'm still digging and I'll keep you posted.

Regards,

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Neil Hoggarth                                 Departmental Computer Officer
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