From: Eric Jeschke (jeschke@cs.indiana.edu)
Date: 06/29/93


From: "Eric Jeschke" <jeschke@cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Advice about UltraStor34F on Linux (maybe volunteering to debug)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 17:15:27 -0500

imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) writes:

:Nothing against John's driver, but the one that was in .99p8 works
:quite well for me. I've beat it up quite a lot (compiling OI, linking
:OB, etc) and have seen more problems on the ISA SCSI controller that
:we have at work.

Be careful--make sure you have the scatter/gather bug fix. I was using
this driver sucessfully too, but it crapped out when I tried to copy
some large directories from one drive to another. It destroyed large
amounts of data on the partition I was reading from.

John's driver works great for me. I think there are some improvements
too, like multiple outstanding requests. This is way cool; I can "cp -a"
a large directory and the prompt comes right back at me. Then I hear
the drives whirring... truly offloaded parallel I/O processing.

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Eric Jeschke                      |          Indiana University
jeschke@cs.indiana.edu            |     Computer Science Department
eric%marmot@moose.cs.indiana.edu  |