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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 13:48:02 -0500
From: splite@purdue.edu
To: forsyth@vitanuova.com
Cc: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] file server problems
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On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 12:24:08PM +0000, forsyth@vitanuova.com wrote:
> someone from borf.com mentioned a problem with a file server corrupting
> the file system.  i've just seen that myself with the new file server
> code (it didn't happen with the old one).  fortunately it was just
> the scratch file system on an older scsi disc on a x542b.
> it corrupts fairly quickly after i ream it.
> the main file system on a symbios card is fine.  it's an ISA bus card, and
> i might suspect 24-bit addressing problems on the 32mbyte file
> server but the buslogic/adaptec code does attempt to compensate for that.

Is the AHA-154x driver fully working in the current release?  It isn't
mentioned on http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/pchardware.html, and
plan9.ini(8) says under the "scsiX=value" section, "At the moment the
Adaptec 1542 is not supported."