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Date:      Wed, 23 Dec 1998 00:00:50 +0100
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.0R && AHA1540A == no go
Message-ID:  <19981223000050.28179@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199812222134.OAA14499@narnia.plutotech.com>; from Justin T. Gibbs on Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 02:34:44PM -0700
References:  <19981222173104.28962@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199812222134.OAA14499@narnia.plutotech.com>

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As Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

> I believe that the 1540A does not support residual calculating
> CCB opcodes.

I'm almost sure it doesn't.

>  So, you'd have to modify the driver to use these
> opcodes on pre-historic devices.

`these'?  (Sorry, which ones?)

>  Unfortunately it is impossible
> to get correct underrun information without these opcodes, so you'll
> have to get creative in this case and you may expose portions of
> the CAM code that become confused if the residual reported is incorrect.

Hmm, what does that mean ``for the average user''?

IOW: under normal circumstances, is it likely that residuals are
reported at all?  Or in case an adapter doesn't support them, can we
just assume there's no residual (without big harm)?  I have no good
clues about what a residual actual means other than `something was
left over from an old request' or something like that...

It would be too bad if i had to throw away an otherwise working
controller that does its job well (well enough for the environment
it's running in, remember it's a scratch machine).  I probably would
stick with 2.2.x then, but that's a less optimal solution.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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