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Re: ncr53c815
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerard Roudier)
Sat Mar 8 06:40:49 1997
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 12:38:28 +0000 (GMT)
From: Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
To: Andre Moitinho <andre@iaa.es>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199703051119.MAA15376@iaa36u.iaa.es>
Hi Andre,
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Andre Moitinho wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> I use a pentium-100 with a ncr53c815 scsi controler and a
> HP SureStrore 5000, at my work.
> Last week the system was upgraded to slackware 3.1
> (linux 2.0.0) and some problems (that I didn't have
> with linux 1.2.8) started:
You should not expect a X.Y.0 version number (like 2.0.0) to refer
to a quite reliable linux version since it is the version used when the
stabilization phase of the X.Y release just began.
You should upgrade your kernel source tree to the latest stable Linux.
It is currently linux-2.0.29.
This version provides 2 differents drivers for NCR53C8XX chips.
The ncr53c7,8xx (original driver) and the NCR53C8XX (ported from FreeBSD).
(The 2.0.0 only offers the ncr53c7,8xx driver)
I am the maintainer of the NCR53C8XX driver, and so it is easy to guess
that my advice is to use this one.
You must only choose one driver for NCR53C8XX chips. So under "make
config" you must answer "N" to the 53c7,8xx and "Y" to the NCR53C8XX.
Let me know if the NCR53C8XX driver solve the problem or not.
Gerard.
