Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:45:12PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > [ On Thursday, May 3, 2001 at 16:31:05 (-0700), Jason R Thorpe wrote: ]
> > > Subject: Re: -current kernel compile problem
> > >
> > > Use the "siop" driver -- The "ncr" driver was not converted to the new
> > > SCSI code, and I expect that it will be deleted.  The "siop" driver works
> > > a lot better, anyhow.
> > 
> > I sure hope that's true!  I'm going to try updating my source tree on
> > the weekend and I do hope my Exabyte Eliant-820 drive works better with
> > the siop driver than it does now in 1.5T (at least under i386)....
> 
> Can you elaborate ?
> Although I didn't try recently, I quickly tested siop with an old Exabyte
> drive (quickly because this drive is dead and can only return media error
> when reading or writing tapes).

FWIW, I'm using a TKZ-09 (DEC-badged Exabyte 8500) with no problems on
my Alpha PC164 running NetBSD 1.5 (other than being too small!).  This
is how it probes:

siop0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0: Symbios Logic 53c810a (fast scsi)
siop0: interrupting at eb164 irq 3
scsibus0 at siop0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
...
siop0: target 5 now synchronous at 5.0Mhz, offset 8
st1 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 0: <DEC, TKZ09   90097000, 045H> SCSI2 1/sequential removable
st1: drive empty
siop0: target 6 asynchronous
probe(siop0:6:1):  Check Condition on CDB: 0x00 20 00 00 00 00
    SENSE KEY:  Aborted Command
     ASC/ASCQ:  Message Error

The error above happens if I boot without a tape - I don't think it
happens if there's a tape in, and I haven't investigated any further...

Simon.
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