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RE: Linux SCSI seagate (TMC-950) driver help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Jullien)
Mon Dec 6 14:25:35 1999
From: "Christian Jullien" <eligis@wanadoo.fr>
To: "Marc SCHAEFER" <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
Cc: <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 19:18:42 +0100
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> mhh, well, I would think it's a broken *target* problem, maybe not a
> broken HA or broken driver problem. If a target deselects and never
> reselects, then it's a target bug. I don't know enough to be sure,
> but I would suggest you contact the current maintainer and
> design either a
> global no disconnect option or a target-specific (based on SCSI ID)
> exclusion.
I already contacted Pavel Machek who was the last known maintainer. He
replies me:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pavel Machek [mailto:pavel@suse.cz]
> Sent: jeudi 25 novembre 1999 21:33
> To: Christian Jullien
> Subject: Re: seagate driver help
>
>
> Hi!
>
> You'll have to debug it yourself. seagate.c was not maintained for
> pretty long time, and I'm not using it any more (having no scsi
> disk). It is probably buggy and no, it probably does not work for
> anyone. Fix it if you can.
> Pavel
That's what I'm trying to do but, if I'm a rather good C/C++/Lisp software
programmer, I've NO experience in kernel/SCSI hacking. Your help is very
precious to me.
> Without disconnection, your system will not be really usable if it
> contains very slow (tape) and normal (disk drives) devices on the same
> SCSI bus.
Before this patch, a NEC CD-ROM, a HP DAT 4mm and hard drives fail with a
timeout. With this patch they work well but I didn't try them connected at
the same time.
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