At 12:25 AM 2/11/96 EST, you wrote:
>I have not been able to learn much about the DMA problem on the 3/50
>because I have yet to catch my 3/50 in the act of data corruption.
>However, I have studied some other driver soures for the Sun3 SCSI
>controller and I have a change that might avoid the H/W problem.
>(At least a comment in the Sprite code suggests it might...)
>I can't tell if my fix helps or not, since my 3/50 does not appear
>to have the data corruption problem, but I hope some brave souls
>might step forward and volunteer to test my change.  Please send
>some mail if you have an 3/50, a scratch disk, and guts. 8^)
>Thanks,
>Gordon

If you can send boot tapes, I'm willing to try it. 8-)

Bill

BTW, I picked up a "Core 217" 150mb HD / 150mb Archive tape drive combo
the other day for $30 . . . I assume this stuff will work with the sun3s?
It appears
to be all SCSI, same 3-row 50-pin connectors . . . I may just mount both tape
drives and HDs in the Sun3 hatbox.....

bill
Bill Bradford * mrbill@ionet.net
Assistant Systems Administrator
Internet Oklahoma