Re: 2.0 scsi BLIST_SINGLELUN and MBR-7

Derrick J Brashear (shadow@DEMENTIA.ORG)
Fri, 31 Jul 1998 10:11:48 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Jon Lewis wrote:

> What's your SCSI card? I just did exactly this, and it's wildly
> inefficient...but doesn't crash. Each cat just takes turns. strace and
> my ears tell me that cat does just a few reads, then the CD changer
> swaps CD's and the other cat does a few reads, then the changer swaps
> again...and so on, and so on. Again...this was with a MBR-7, U34f, and
> kernel 2.0.31 (too lazy/busy to upgrade my home box).

It's a Sparc; I'm using the on-board esp SCSI controller (though I could
trivially move it to the esp SCSI controller on a card in my sbus slot:-)

Ok, so it's likely something specific to the esp. Useful to know, gives me
something to poke at.

-D

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