On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Michael Schmitz wrote:

quoted

So the only points in common seem to be that the DVD drives are running
on mac hardware and that the drivers are written by Paul Mackerras.  :-)
I don't at all mean to impugn Paul's coding ability, which is obviously
excellent, but the fact that he wrote both the drivers may mean that
they share lots of code and possibly share the same bug.

If so, the bug should have propagated to the m68k 53c9x driver. Wouldn't
be the 53c9x first weirdness - I never got it to accept a DAT drive (old
DDS-1, possibly Apple) without blowing up.

FYI, my DDS-1 worked with my MESH. Not perfectly, sometimes it gave a warning
(lost arbitration, IIRC), which aborted the current reading/writing.

Moving the DD-1 to the Sym53c875 solved the problem.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
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In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
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							    -- Linus Torvalds


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