ajb@cornea.mitre.org (Alan J. Broder) (06/08/89)
My previous posting to sun-spots indicated the history of the problems that I had running an Exabyte drive on a 3/180. In summary, I received a patch to the SCSI driver from Sun which cured the hang during read problem. I then tried applying the same patch to our 3/280 which was also running 4.0.1 and also experiencing the same hanging problem with its Exabyte. Unfortunately, this patch does not work on the 3/280. When I try to write to the Exabyte using the patched driver I get the message "bus error during dma" on the console. Others have reported this problem with the patch on 3/280's (in previous sun-spots) but have never reported the solution. I called Sun phone support, they looked into the problem, and are basically washing their hands of this problem, saying we don't support the Exabyte, speak to Exabyte. So, my question is this, am I stuck with a non-functioning exabyte on my 3/280 ? Or does anyone have a solution to this problem? Alan Broder ajb@cornea.mitre.org