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Re: writing cdhdtape to CD



I can confirm the SCSI part, as it happens w/ an Adaptec 29160 & well
as the on-board LSI 53c1010.

I'm trying to stay positive, as with FreeBSD/alpha support
discontinued and Tru64 only having until 2012, NetBSD is me only hope
to get away from Linux.

-Dustin

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Anders Hogrelius<ahs%hogrelius.nu@localhost> 
wrote:
>
> This problem has been there a long time, at least since 3.0. It does not
> only affect the CS20/DS20L but also the DS20 and 264DP. It is also the
> reason why I gave up on trying to use NetBSD on my production boxes. I
> suspect it might be related in some way to the problem Michael described too
> as I ran in to that problem when I tried to boot my boxes with a non-MP
> kernel. I didn't dig deeper into the cause however I can say that it is not
> driver specific, the same problem occurs regardless of if your disk is
> hooked up to the internal SCSI chain or to a card in the PCI slots. It
> doesn't seem to be SCSI specific either as for me it thrashed the filesystem
> on disks hooked up to the ATA controller too when I tried that.
>
> Cheers,
> Anders
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> On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Dustin Marquess wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Michael L.
>> Hitch<mhitch%lightning.msu.montana.edu@localhost> wrote:
>>
>>> If I boot with an old 4.0
>>> kernel, or the 5.0 GENERIC.MP [which does not work with > 1 cpu
>>> currently],
>>
>> OT, but I opened a PR (#41106) a couple of months ago about the MP
>> kernels not working with the CS20.
>>
>> -Dustin
>>
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