> On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Harvey Fishman wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Serguei Koubouchine wrote:
> >
> > > The machine can be reliably crashed by writing to (or even reading lotta
> > > files from) the MO drive no matter whether it's plugged to the CDTxxxx or to
> > > a separate controller. No crashes when reading files from MO one-by-one with
> > > several seconds pause between reads. No crashes had been encountered on
> > > 2.2.0-pre6-ac2. Data corruption had been there since 2.1.129...
> >
> > I have seen that sort of behavior also with Adaptec chips (AIC-7870 and
> > AIC-7895). My solution has been to avoid wild-car writes. Happens with
> > my M2513a but I do ever remember seeing it happen with the M2512a.
> >
> > Harvey
> >
>
> I suggest turning off disconnect as a start. Adaptec and BusLogic
> controllers have a BIOS menu. If this temporarily fixes the problem,
BusLogic BT-958 DOES work fine...
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