Subject: Re: Feb. 29 kernel
To: Jarle Fredrik Greipsland <jarle@runit.sintef.no>
From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/03/1996 23:07:02
> Paul Kranenburg writes:
> >> esp0 targ 4 lun 0: <MICROP, 1588-15MBSUN0669, SN0C> SCSI1 0/direct fixed
> >> The other interesting new event is I now have a disappearing
> >> file problem. On sd1, whenever I add or remove files, all the other
> >> files in that directory disappear. If I unmount the drive, fsck, and
> This is similar behavior to the one you'll see for the aic6360 driver
> without the patch in port-i386/875 applied.  Actually, I sent an IMO
> better fix than the one in the original pr to gnats-admin, and also
> warned that this bug may have been dragged along into any derived
> drivers.  Seeing that the esp-driver refers to the aic6360 driver this
> may very well be the case.
> 
> > I have reason to believe that this drive contains a SCSI protocol bug.

FWIW: I have an identical drive (but with different firmware) running just
fine for some years now. We also used the 1588 drives extensively in the
Unix SysV servers we sold at the company I worked for. We never had problems
with 'm

Wilko
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