>> It does, however, appear to have something to do with the hardware >> [...] > It's most likely the controller hardware (or firmware). The driver > doesn't seem at all interested in the data alignment, and I don't > recall other parts of the I/O stack caring.
That sounds reasonable. > To verify you should test your program against some other (preferably > not emulated) disk controller. I think I have an add-in card that also shows up as esiop. That could help me tell whether it's the hardware or something weird in the driver. Actually, I got the machine from a friend-of-a-friend who was a pretty hardcore SCSI geek in a former life (he now repairs organs, the musical kind). He would probably be the right person to ask about this; it's not totally implausible he might even have source to the firmware (I doubt he could release it to me if so, but he could look at it). /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
