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Re: scsi problems with debian

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Youngdale)
Fri Jun 23 20:01:06 1995

From: "Eric Youngdale" <eric@aib.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 19:03:24 -0400
In-Reply-To: hjl@nynexst.com (H.J. Lu)
        "Re: scsi problems with debian" (Jun 23,  2:18pm)
To: hjl@nynexst.com (H.J. Lu),
        berg@POOL.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Stephen R. van den Berg)
Cc: ncr53c810@cs.colorado.edu (ncr53c810),
        linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu (Linux SCSI)


>1. Always do a low level format on a new SCSI hard drive.

	I would recommend against this, actually.  The problem is
that the NCR driver needs to be able to handle errors a bit better.

>2. The error handling code in the generic/NCR 53C810 SCSI driver
>   may not work at all.

-Eric

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