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Re: NCR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Berry)
Sat Jan 18 01:51:10 1997
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 01:32:48 -0500
From: Russell Berry <berrex@albany.net>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
CC: David Hamm <dhamm@itserve.com>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Jon Lewis wrote:
>
> On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, David Hamm wrote:
>
> > What's the story on the NCR cards? I have several that I used with the 1.2.X
> > kernels but since the 2.0.X kernels, I've not been able to use them. No big
> > deal I've moved to the buslogic cards which are sweeeet. But now I would like
> > to use one of these cards in a low use computer and I continue to get error
> > messages. I might be using the wrong driver. The cards I have all have the
> > 53c810 chip and have MS-3805 Ver 1.2 written on the board.
>
> Hmm...I have around a dozen NCR-810 cards in various systems running
> 2.0.2x. No real problems except the occasional (kernel?) fs corruption on
> the news server. I just recently installed 2.0.28 there with Gerard's
> ext2 debug patch.
>
> What problems are you seeing?
>
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I just wanted to add that I also use the NCR53C810 PCI SCSI-II card in
my ASUS MB based box. I have been more impressed with this card in this
particular machine than any other I've found. And the price! :)
---russ
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