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Re: Big problems with 8390 based cards!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Woods)
Fri Jul 14 22:31:36 1995
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 12:21:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chris Woods <cjwoods@gigotech.net>
To: Michael Brennen <mbrennen@fni.com>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950713220550.8573E-100000@fni.com>
On Thu, 13 Jul 1995, Michael Brennen wrote:
> This occasions a question that is very timely, as I will be soon picking
> up an enet card for a 486/DX266 VL bus with an Adaptec SCSI 2842
> controller. I remember from the enet how-to that there have been some
> problems with the SMC Ultra and SCSI bus mastering controllers.
>
> Has this been resolved, and with which kernel? I am presently running
> 1.3.3 as it is stable for me, but with enet would probably drop back to
> 1.2.11+, given all the recent traffic with enet and 1.3.x.
That's exactly the configuration I have on my news server. It's a P5-90MHz
with Adaptec's AHA2842 SCSI controller, running in sync negotiation mode,
10MB/sec transfer rate. The ethernet card in the machine is an SMC Ultra.
Not a single problem. Kernel is currently 1.2.5, waiting for a convenient
middle-of-the-night time to reboot into 1.2.10. (Or a crash, whichever
comes first. Machine has never crashed, though)
Note that this machine takes a fairly significant beating, both CPU-wise
and network-wise. It is an NNTP server, with several large incoming feeds
(I accept every group that's offered me), and 50+ people reading via NNTP
at any given time.
Chris Woods cjwoods@gigotech.net
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