zik@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (Michael Saleeba) (06/03/91)
I just got my 300Mb Wren IV drive working with a 2090A controller via SCSI. All seemed well until I formatted the last partition, when suddenly my first (OFS) partition started spewing out errors. I theorised that beyond a certain point on the disk it was munging early tracks, and tried to isolate the first track where the problem occurred. I soon realised that it seemed to be pretty close to the track which corresponded to exactly 256Mb on the disk. My question is: Does the 2090A have a 19 bit limit on its SCSI block addresses, and if it does; aarrrggghhhh! Zik
wild@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Markus Wild) (06/06/91)
In article <1991Jun3.162221.20434@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au> zik@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (Michael Saleeba) writes: >track where the problem occurred. I soon realised that it seemed to be pretty >close to the track which corresponded to exactly 256Mb on the disk. > >My question is: Does the 2090A have a 19 bit limit on its SCSI block addresses, I rather think that early versions of the FFS had this bug, it's not the hddisk.device of the 2090. I'm not sure if this problem got fixed in a 1.3 version of FFS, it is fixed under 2.0. -Markus -- Markus M. Wild - mwild@iiic.ethz.ch | wild@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch -- Still looking for a REAL debugger for Release 4 ...