Xref: utzoo comp.unix.i386:552 comp.unix.xenix:7755 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!amdahl!pacbell!att!mcdchg!ddsw1!nvk From: nvk@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Norman Kohn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Mylex SCSI Controller Message-ID: <1989Sep24.003005.18211@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Date: 24 Sep 89 00:30:05 GMT References: <8191@megatest.UUCP> Reply-To: nvk@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Norman Kohn) Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Mundelein, IL Lines: 12 In article <8191@megatest.UUCP> palowoda@megatest.UUCP (Bob Palowoda) writes: > > Ok who is useing the Mylex DC376 SCSI Controller on a UNIX/XENIX machine. I'd be a bit concerned: the board has an on-board cache, and therefore can upset unix's notions of what order to do disk writes in. You might therefore incur a hard-disk inconsistency unfixable by fsck if the system crashes in between writes. I'd want to hear that the board had satisfied the driver writer before I'd be comfortable bringing it up. -- Norman Kohn | ...ddsw1!nvk Chicago, Il. | days/ans svc: (312) 650-6840 | eves: (312) 373-0564