>Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:00:27 -0500 (EST)
>From: maximum entropy <entropy@zippy.bernstein.com>
>
>>Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 01:00:21 +0200 (EET)
>>From: Elmet Orasson <elmet@rasi.lr.ttu.ee>
>>
>>With new kernel i had some success, I could disklabel and newfs but when I
>>did ftp to take new sources onto disk it gave 'error: short write'
>>sometimes. Dunno, what's the problem.
>
>OK, three people with the same problem convinces me there's a real
>problem here.  I guess I'll dig a vs3100m30 out of storage and go
>hunting...

Please try this patch.

--- /sys/arch/vax/vsa/ncr.c-orig	Mon Dec  7 07:18:49 1998
+++ /sys/arch/vax/vsa/ncr.c	Wed Jan 13 01:38:13 1999
@@ -190,6 +190,8 @@
 	ncr_sc->sci_r6 = sca_regs + 0x98; /* IN_DATA/DMA_TRCV  (rw) */
 	ncr_sc->sci_r7 = sca_regs + 0x9c; /* RESET/DMA_IRCV    (rw) */
 
+	ncr_sc->sc_no_disconnect = 0xff;
+
 	/*
 	 * Initialize si board itself.
 	 */


Cheers,
entropy

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