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- From: story@sgi.com (David (Duis) Story)
- Subject: Re: HP DAT drive on PI has trouble with large block sizes
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- References: <BzMDuq.E7t@well.sf.ca.us>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 02:40:53 GMT
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- In article <BzMDuq.E7t@well.sf.ca.us> gaarder@well.sf.ca.us (Steve Gaarder) writes:
- >
- >We have an HP DAT drive connected to a Personal Iris 4D/20 running Irix
- >4.0.5. I modified /usr/sysgen/master.d/tpsc to allow the machine to
- >identify the unit as a DAT, and that seems to have worked. However,
- >when I try to use a tar blocking factor greater than 64 (= a block size
- >greater than 32768), I get the following error:
- >
- >sc0,7,0: cmd=0x8 disconnected on non-word boundary (addr=C05CB402, 0x0 left).
- > Resetting SCSI bus
- >
- >I have the same problem when I put the drive on a 4D/35. Any ideas
- >what's going on here?
-
- This message indicates that the device did not disconnect on a 32-bit
- word boundary. The device itself may allow this to be configured; I
- believe our SCSI drivers require this.
-
- Cheers,
-
- David Story Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- story@bent.wpd.sgi.com Mountain View, California
-
- I've changed my name, so duis@sgi.com may bounce, please use story@sgi.com.
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