I use Micronet 6.7.4 program on MacOS, while installing SCSI driver I
choose harddrive specific features.Then th dialog gives me a chance to
change cache (for READ and WRITE) to enable or disable. 
I think NetBSD SCSI driver does not look for it.

On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Colin Wood wrote:

> Mehmet Orhun SEYMEN wrote:
> > dmaintr: discarded 32 b (last transfer was 2544 b). 
> >   esp0: !TC [intr 10, stat 83, step 4] prevphase 0, resid 9f0 
> >   sd0(esp0:0:0): esp0: timed out [ecb 0x6baa8d0 (flags 0x3, dleft 9f0, 
> >   stat 0)], <state 4, nexus 
> >   0x6baa8d0, phase(c 3, p 3), resid 0, msg(q 0,o 0) > 
> >   sd0(esp0:0:0): esp0: timed out [ecb 0x6baa8d0 (flags 0x43, dleft 9f0, 
> >   stat 0)], <state 4, nexus 
> > 0x6baa8d0, phase(c 3, p 3), resid 0, msg(q 20,o 0) > AGAIN 
> > 
> >         Dear Sir, 
> >     I am using a Mac LC475 (68040 not lc040) and you know this problem
> > above. 
> > 
> >     While I play with settings of my Harddisc I noticed this: 
> > When I turned off the cache no longer thah problems occur. This makes my
> > HD (Fujitsu M1603S) makes data transfer slower but this is better. 
> 
> What do you use to turn off the cache on your hard drive?
> 
> Later.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
> Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> I speak only on my own behalf, not for my employer.
> 





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