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Re: NCR53C8XX (BSD ported) 16e for 2.0.28, Hard error.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James W. Laferriere)
Fri Jan 31 18:17:19 1997
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 16:18:18 -0800 (PST)
From: "James W. Laferriere" <babydr@nwrain.net>
To: Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
cc: "Jake (not the snake) Messinger" <jake@ams.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, ncr53c810@Colorado.EDU
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970131211147.94A-100000@localhost>
On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Gerard Roudier wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, James W. Laferriere wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Jake (not the snake) Messinger wrote:
... snipped my response to Jake ...
>
> A lot confusing, is'nt it?
Yes....
> Unless the problem is not due to burst and PCI dma features. :(
Oh-Boy I hope not, I do not have the funds to get a
better M.B. at this time....
>
> James, did you try 1.17 with all 810A features disabled and burst 8?
> Boot set-up command: ncr53c8xx=burst:3,specf:n
>
> burst:3 means (1<<3) bursts and specf:n means "special features disabled".
> If that does not fix your problem, the cause is probably not related to
> those 810A special features.
Gerard, I am doing a 'make zdisk' in order to not write the test
kernel to the primary disk. So the above is a 'little difficult'
at best to do, unless I am missing something obvious ?
So I'll create a backup boot file for the still good kernel.
and try the above .
> I will look into difference between 1.17 and 1.16b.
Thank you.
> PS:
> Obviously, 1.17 works fine with my Promise SCSI Ultra, I have heavily
> tested it on my system and I use it since last sunday.
> I use 1.16e on my Linux development system at work (810 rev. 1) since 10
> days and have had no problem at all.
> I do what I can ...
You are already doing a great deal, & I always recommend your
work to anyone using the ASUS-SC200 card.
That driver has been the best working driver for the sc200
I have seen.
Tia, JimL
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My libraries & programs status ( most are here now )
At the time of this writing, I am using.
Linux-2.0.28 , eepro100.c/ v0.23 01/24/97 in kernel.
, ncr53c8xx.c/ v1.16b 12/30/96 in kernel.
Gcc v. 2.7.2 ; binutils-2.6.0.14 ; sysvinit-2.62
ld.so.1.7.14 ; libc.so.5.3.12 ; libc.so.4.7.6
libg++.so.27.1.4 ;
proc-ps 0.99 ; net-tools 1.2.0 ; mount-2.5j
Modules 2.0.0 ; loadkeys 0.89 ;
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