randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) (01/06/91)
Has anyone got the st01/2 scsi driver by Tatu Ylonen as modified by Tin Le working with ISC 2.2? It compiles, installs, and partitions just fine, but when I try to do a mkfs on it, it crashes/reboots the system. I am using a Quantum 80 meg drive from an old Apple AU/X system. The drive works fine with a st02 under DOS. I am using a st01 with the rom removed jumpered for INT 5 and memory address c800-cbff. The partitions software reports 156000 blocks, but if I try to do a mkfs of anything over about 1000 blocks, the computer just reboots, no error messages. Thanks for any info. -randy -- Randy Suess randy@chinet.chi.il.us
tin@smsc.sony.com (Tin "Man" Le) (01/09/91)
In article <1991Jan05.234012.20635@chinet.chi.il.us> randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes: > > Has anyone got the st01/2 scsi driver by Tatu Ylonen as modified >by Tin Le working with ISC 2.2? It compiles, installs, and partitions >just fine, but when I try to do a mkfs on it, it crashes/reboots the system. >I am using a Quantum 80 meg drive from an old Apple AU/X system. The drive >works fine with a st02 under DOS. I am using a st01 with the rom removed >jumpered for INT 5 and memory address c800-cbff. The partitions software >reports 156000 blocks, but if I try to do a mkfs of anything over about >1000 blocks, the computer just reboots, no error messages. Hmmm, I am running my news spool on a WREN III (150MB), which is more than 1000 blocks. The entire drive is used for news, and I had no problem with mkfs. It's been running since last August with a full news feed. I know there's some timing/interrupt problem with the driver, but they only show under rare conditions (like I said, I've been using it full time under a full news feed without problems). Recently, there has been several drivers for the ST0x posted to alt.sources (one for DOS and the other for *NIX). I am looking at integrating fixes from these drivers and adding SCSI tape support (as soon as I can afford to buy a tape drive). From your description, do you mean that you can mkfs a partition with less than 1000 blocks? Successfully? I've had panics in the beginning when I was using the wrong /dev partition to mkfs on. Make sure you use the char device, and the correct partition - /dev/rscsi0 I believe. -- Tin -- .---------------------------------------------------------------------- . Tin Le Work Internet: tin@smsc.Sony.COM . Sony Microsystems UUCP: {uunet,mips}!sonyusa!tin . Work: (408) 944-4157 Home Internet: tin@szebra.uu.net