AIC 7902 driver in Stable: problems with a B channel drive.

[Steve Grandi]

That did the trick!  Thanks, Justin!  I will also tell the folks at AC&NC
about the problem.


On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

> > What still doesn't work: I attach a JetStor III disk array (from AC&NC) to
> > the B channel of the embedded controller and the Stable boot goes into a
> > nice loop of "Dump Card State".  See below for a listing of a couple of
> > cycles of this loop from a verbose dump.  The AIC7902 BIOS correctly sees
> > the disk array as target 3 on the B channel of the controller.
>
> Is the JetStor III rated for U320?  My guess is no, but that it is not
> properly rejecting the packetized request we make in our outgoing parallel
> protocol request message.  To work around this broken device, disable
> packetized protocol in SCSI select.  Just dropping the speed to 160 does
> not disable packetized protocol.  You should probably disable QAS for
> this target as well.
>
> --
> Justin
>
>

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