Subject: Re: kern/6347
To: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
From: Dave Sainty <dave@dtsp.co.nz>
List: current-users
Date: 07/13/1999 22:36:09
Michael Richardson writes:

> 
> 
> >>>>> "Christos" == Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com> writes:
>     Christos> In article <199907130132.SAA04548@shell9.ba.best.com>,
>     Christos> C Kane <ckane@best.com> wrote:
>     >> Hello.
>     >> 
>     >> Could someone please have a look at kern/6347 "ncr driver cannot deal
>     >> with five or more disks", and possibly commit the "fix" mentioned?
>     >> If this ticket is closed, please also close kern/7516 which reports
>     >> the same problem.
> 
>     Christos> We need to have someone with an ncr verify that the fix works.
> 
>   Well, I pulled mine because of this problem, and the fact that it didn't
> work with my tape drive very well. The high end NCR cards seem to do very
> badly with devices of multiple speeds.
>   If very important, I can pull the 2940 out and put the NCR back in and
> try. I have four drives plus tape drive. 

Hmm, tell me about it.  Attempting to do a backup to my 5 MB/sec
caused significant damage to my poor 20MB/s drive, though the 10MB/sec
drive was fine.

Maybe I shouldn't mix device speeds so badly :)

The corruption was amusing though, check out those modification times!

Setuid additions:
prwsr-xr-x 18164 2633305079 670483187 5545397811823284715 Sep 10 14:41:52 1914 /vol/tequila/userC/NetBSD-sup/pkgsrc/x11/wmthemes

Device additions:
b-wxrws-wx 4605 4244177666 435702270 2048, 377087 Nov 17 22:46:28 1950 /vol/tequila/userC/NetBSD-current/xsrc/xc/programs/Xserver/XIE/mixie/process/mpbands.c
b-wxrws-wx 4605 4244177666 435702270 2048, 377087 Nov 17 22:46:28 1950 /vol/tequila/userC/NetBSD-sup/xsrc/xc/programs/Xserver/XIE/mixie/process/mpbands.c

Dave