< Connecting Fujitsu M2266SA to SGI SCSI (SOLVED) >

Marc T. Kaufman kaufman at neon.Stanford.EDU
Tue May 14 02:07:31 AEST 1991


In article <41691 at unlisys.in-berlin.de> rot at unlisys.in-berlin.de (Robert Rothe) writes:

>the drive runs fine so far..
>but i wonder why i have to slow down the device soo much to get it running
>with the sgi-machine ? is it the fault of the disk, the scsi-driver or the 
>scsi-adapter ?

Well, I don't know about SGI's drivers, but I was absolutely appalled to see
that there was essentially no code to recover from errors in a driver that is
supposed to be the boot driver for SUN Sparc Stations.  I mean, the code
could not even handle a Unit Busy response.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman at Neon.stanford.edu)



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