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In <BzMDuq.E7t@well.sf.ca.us> gaarder@well.sf.ca.us (Steve Gaarder) writes:


| We have an HP DAT drive connected to a Personal Iris 4D/20 running Irix
| 4.0.5.  I modified /usr/sysgen/master.d/tpsc to allow the machine to
| identify the unit as a DAT, and that seems to have worked.  However,
| when I try to use a tar blocking factor greater than 64 (= a block size
| greater than 32768), I get the following error:
| 
| sc0,7,0: cmd=0x8 disconnected on non-word boundary (addr=C05CB402, 0x0 left).
|   Resetting SCSI bus
| 
| I have the same problem when I put the drive on a 4D/35.  Any ideas
| what's going on here?

You need to bug Ardat or your distributor for newer firmware.
Almost certainly this is not a drive purchased from SGI.  I
asked Ardat to put the fix into their standard firmware, since
SGI isn't the only system with problems on non-word aligned
DMA (which is what happens when the drive disconnects on
a boundary not a multiple of 4 bytes from start of transfer).

They said they would do put it in their next general firmware
release, but either that hasn't happened, or you have
older firmware.

There is no workaround except to disable SCSI disconnects,
which has problems of its own (see master.d/scsi).
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