From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 08:10:45 +0100 (CET) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Michael Schmitz cc: Daniel Eisenbud , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: mesh SCSI bus locks hard on 7500 when burning a CD-R in dao mode In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > 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 -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/