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Date:      Thu, 2 Jul 1998 22:45:56 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
To:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Cc:        brian@worldcontrol.com, iang@iafrica.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SCSI problems on aic7880
Message-ID:  <199807030445.WAA16219@panzer.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <199807030309.UAA03446@antipodes.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Jul 2, 98 08:09:55 pm"

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Mike Smith wrote...
> > On %M 0, Ian Freislich <iang@iafrica.com> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > After a while (3 mins from boot to a day or so) I start getting
> > > the following messages on my console:
> > > (this sequence repeats infinitely so I'm not sure if the SCSI
> > > problem causes the pager problem or the other way around)
> > 
> > I have repeatable problems with the aic7880. The same problems do
> > not appear on the aic7870.  I suggest you find a aic7870 based board.
> > 
> > CAM may solve the problem, however, I am unable to use it due to a
> > lack of CD burning facility.
> 
> Please find attached patches for cdrecord 1.6a12.  These have already 
> been submitted to the CAM people and Joerg Schilling, but it sounds 
> like the urgency level is rising.  You need to set the following 
> environment variables before building:
> 
> COPTX=	-DBSD_CAM
> LDOPTX=	-lcam
> 
> 
> (Note that the patch was cleaned slightly by hand, as I just realised 
>  it was full of junk.  It should still work though.)

	It might be better to grab the port from my ftp site.  I've changed
a few things, fixed a few bugs.  Among other things, it can tell the
difference between CAM and non-CAM systems, and configures itself
accordingly.

ftp://ftp.kdm.org/pub/FreeBSD/cam/cdrecord-1.6-cam.980630.tar.gz

[ Mike, I'll explain a little more shortly...]

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@plutotech.com

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