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Re: NCR 53C810a
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerard Roudier)
Thu Nov 27 17:27:16 1997
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 23:19:06 +0100 (MET)
From: Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
To: Klaus-Peter Dombrofsky <Klaus.Dombrofsky@brueckner.de>
cc: "'linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu'" <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01BCFB53.0DB98290@kd.brueckner.de>
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Klaus-Peter Dombrofsky wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i had a NCR 53C810-Controller and this one worked.
> Now i have a 53C810a and the BSD-driver doesn't work, so i had to compile the standard-ncr53c7,8xx driver.
> Is there something different with this 53C810a ??
>
> Klaus-Peter Dombrofsky
>
> KDombrofsky@t-online.de
>
> Klaus.Dombrofsky@Brueckner.de
Report kernel version and driver patches if any.
The ncr53c8xx driver enables cache line based PCI optimized commands
for NCR chips that support these features. In order to work with these
features enabled the 810a requires some special memory alignments that was
not guaranteed by some old driver versions.
Regards, Gerard.
