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DC390/AM53C974 SCSI driver 2.0c2 (bugfix)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Garloff)
Fri Nov 27 19:40:12 1998

Date: 	Sat, 28 Nov 1998 01:03:17 +0100
From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@kg1.ping.de>
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In-Reply-To: <19981127223125.A15452@kg1.ping.de>; from Kurt Garloff on Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 10:31:25PM +0100

On Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 10:31:25PM +0100, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> * SDTR with more than 15 bytes offfset is rejected. Every other unknown or
>   unsupported message is also rejected, including SAVE_POINTERS and
>   RESTORE_POINTERS, which the 2.0c version silently accepted.

As Gerard pointed out (thanks!), a lot of devices won't be happy with that.
POINTERS seem to be there to help the controller handle
disconnection/reselection, but I don't need this help, so I can safely
ignore it.

Please test ...

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