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Re: NCR53C8XX: data direction problem fix.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry M. Augustin)
Tue Jan 7 02:39:32 1997
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 11:34:15 -0800
From: "Larry M. Augustin" <lma@varesearch.com>
To: groudier@club-internet.fr
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, ncr53c810@Colorado.EDU,
Linus.Torvalds@cs.Helsinki.FI
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970105202922.24525A-100000@localhost> (message
from Gerard Roudier on Sun, 5 Jan 1997 20:36:23 +0000 (GMT))
If you are looking for a 2.0.x kernel with recent ncrBsd2Linux driver
updates see the 2.0.27 Linux kernel available for ftp from
ftp.varesearch.com in /pub/kernels/linux2.0.27.
Larry
>From: Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
>Sender: owner-ncr53c810@mroe.cs.colorado.edu
>
>With this patch, the driver is now able to accept data transfer
>direction according to target decision for "uncommon" op-codes.
>Scsi devices, like scanners that implement proprietary scsi
>commands shall now work with the driver.
>Can be told: this patch fixes the problem of EXTRA DATA DISGARDED,
>sometimes encountered with scanner devices.
>
>This patch updates the driver source files from 1.16c to 1.16d.
>Linux 2.1.20 has ncr53c8xx rev. 1.16b, so 2 patches must be
>applied to Linux-2.1.20:
>
> ncr53c8xx-1.16b-to-1.16c.patch.gz
> ncr53c8xx-1.16c-to-1.16d.patch.gz
>
>Warning! the version number in ncr53c8xx.c 1.16c is wrongly 1.16b.
>It is 1.16c in ncr53c8xx.h .
>
>These patches are available at ftp://linux.wauug.org/pub/roudier.
>
>They apply cleanly to stable versions of linux updated with the
>ncrBsd2Linux-1.16b-src.tar.gz package.
>
> Gerard.
