wnp@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Wolf Paul) (08/27/89)
I am trying to get Tatu Ylonen's SCSI driver to work under Microport V/386 Release 3.0e.1, using the Seagate ST-01 host adapter and a Seagate 296N, 80MB drive. I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has been successful with this combination. My other hardware is a DTK ET20 motherboard with a WD1006V-MM2 disk controller and a Seagate 4096 80M drive. The SCSI driver is installed on IRQ 3, with IRQ 4 being a DFI 4-port card with Jim Murray's asy driver, IRQ 5 is the Microport QIC-02 Tape Driver, and IRQ 7 is the line printer. Following Tatu's suggestion I have removed the ST-01's ROM, but the problem described below occurs with or without the ROM. Installation went well, on boot-up the driver seems to initialize properly, "scsipart" executes normally, formats the drive, and partitions it. However, as soon as I try to "mkfs" on the drive, I get error messages "scsi: sending hard reset to scsi bus" "scsi: doxfernosleep: !STBSY unit 0" "scsi: timeout identify message out - drive 0 does not support messages?" and then a stream of "scsi: startscsi: retrying or failing" after which the machine reboots. The same thing happens if I try to read from the block device for the entire drive or one of the partitions, i.e. something like, "od -c < /dev/scsi0s0". After a phone call to Tatu I have removed the #define ASM statement, and have also set slow=1 in doscsicmd(); neither has made any difference. Changing the blocksize back and forth between 512 bytes or 1K does not make any difference either. If I do not try to access the drive, or if I limit my access to "scsipart", there is no problem. "scsipart" is able to write and read the partition table, so I assume the drive itself is functional. I would appreciate any advice or help from anyone who has successfully used this driver with a Seagate 296N. Thanks in advance! Wolf -- Wolf N. Paul * 3387 Sam Rayburn Run * Carrollton TX 75007 * (214) 306-9101 UUCP: {texbell, attctc, dalsqnt}!dcs!wnp DOMAIN: wnp@attctc.dallas.tx.us or wnp%dcs@texbell.swbt.com NOTICE: As of July 3, 1989, "killer" has become "attctc".