On Wed, 3 Jan 1996, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> On Thu, 04 Jan 1996 00:32:47 +1100 
>  matthew green <mrg@mame.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
>  > i've been getting quite a number of these "empty FIFO of 16" messages
>  > recently also -- i changed hardware (elc -> different elc) at the same
>  > time and i don't get it on my ipx at all.
> 
> I don't get them on any of my SS1 systems, but then again, they're not 
> terribly active as far as the disks go ...
> 
> It's probably due to dome quirkyness in some rev of the Emulex flavor of 
> the 53c9x that Sparc use.  (I just discovered how bloody many versions of 
> that chip there are ... frightning!  :-)

Thee was no problem last time i sup:ed, november 19. The FIFO empty is no 
problem in itself, the "sector write failed" which accompany them are. 
I'll try to get a fresh batch of sources just in case something happend 
to them while in transit.

Peter