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Re: T130B
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Lentin)
Thu Jun 22 09:50:33 1995
From: Kevin Lentin <kevinl@cs.monash.edu.au>
To: lermen@elserv.ffm.fgan.de
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 22:16:03 +1000 (EST)
Cc: jgotts@engin.umich.edu, jay@cftnet.com, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9506211751.C3192-0100000@elserv.ffm.fgan.de> from "Hans Lermen" at Jun 22, 95 01:42:24 am
Hans Lermen Wrote ...
> >
> > >With LILO options:
> > > append = "ncr53480=0x358,255"
> > > append = "ncr5380=0x358,255"
> > > append = "ncr53c400=0x350,255"
> >
> > Are you sure about the second append option? That exact line worked for my
> > friend's Trantor T130B and his Plextor 6 Plex and NEC 3x SCSI-II drives. Did
> > you remeber to re-run lilo after you added the line?
> >
>
> May I perhaps add some silly remarks:
>
> Only ncr5380= (second line above) will be recognized by Linux-1.2.10.
> All other ncr53...= won't reach the driver because init/main.c
> doesn't expect such a commandline string.
>
> I did post this quite a long time ago, but (at least untill 1.3.3) the
> patch is not part of any kernel (except of mine and the kernels of
> those who verified that I'm right).
Sorry, but the above case is different. This is not related to the 53c710
etc drivers. ncr53c400= is accepted by the ncr53c400 patch on sunsite which
extends the generic NCR5380 driver to support the 53c400 (which contains a
5380 core).
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