Problems with buslogic and osst driver

Problems with buslogic and osst driver

[Andrew Bray]

I (and others on the OnStream osst driver mailing) list cannot get this tape 
drive to work with BusLogic SCSI host adapters.

This is with 2.2.19 and 2.4.3 and either a MultiMaster or FlashPoint card.

I have been in contact with Willem Reide (the author of the osst driver) and
he has identified some spurious errors surfacing from the BusLogic driver.

Willem has suggested some workarounds for the osst driver that ignore these
errors, but they are not sufficient to get the tape going.

So I thought that it was time to bring in Leonard Zubkoff, who is still listed
as the maintainer for the Buslogic driver.

I haven't exchanged E-Mail with Leonard since 1995, but I sent off some mail
anyway.  I have as yet had no reply from him.

So I have 2 questions:

1) Does anyone know if Leonard Zubkoff is still around?

2) Is anyone else looking after the BusLogic driver these days?

Regards,

Andy

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Re: Problems with buslogic and osst driver

[Alan Cox]

> So I have 2 questions:
> 1) Does anyone know if Leonard Zubkoff is still around?

Leonard was around at OLS last year and working at VA. Its possible he was
laid off but I've heard nothing to suggest that so he's probably just busy
or on holiday

> 2) Is anyone else looking after the BusLogic driver these days?

Not afaik but feel free to pitch in

Re: Problems with buslogic and osst driver

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Sun, May 20, 2001 at 08:46:44PM +0100, Alan Cox escreveu:
> > So I have 2 questions:
> > 1) Does anyone know if Leonard Zubkoff is still around?
> 
> Leonard was around at OLS last year and working at VA. Its possible he was
> laid off but I've heard nothing to suggest that so he's probably just busy
> or on holiday

I've met him at the 2.5 kernel summit in CA +- one month ago and he is still
maintaining at least the DAC960 driver, not sure about the buslogic
 
> > 2) Is anyone else looking after the BusLogic driver these days?
> 
> Not afaik but feel free to pitch in

yes, we need more people fixing drivers, thats for sure

- Arnaldo