"Michael L. Hitch" wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> 
> > 
> > In message <199909040851.SAA20151@balrog.supp.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au>
> > Simon Burge writes:
> > >Just a short note that I tried to get a pmax version of 'sdd' working,
> > >but after two filesystem-related panics in less than an hour, I'm going
> > >to give up :-(  If I can get a diskless setup working this week I'll
> > >have another go, but I don't want to kill my main dev. box...
> > 
> > Was this onan ioasic machine? I think the Mi scsi code assumes
> 
>   I took this as Simon attempting to warp sdd to use the pmax raw SCSI
> command interface.  I got the sources and had a quick glance at it, but I
> haven't tried to modify it yet.

The problems I had were getting a test program that just did a SCSI
IDENTIFY - there certainly shouldn't have been any 8kb transactions.
I'm thinking that it might be easier to emulate the MI SCIOCCOMMAND
rather than convert any programs to using the pmax SDIOCSCSICOMMAND.

Simon.