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Re: NCR53c810 lockups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Hespe)
Thu Jul 20 00:33:39 1995
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 10:41:09 +1000
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: t.hespe@unsw.edu.au (Tim Hespe)
>In message <9506211244.AA17102@bAARNie.tafe.sa.edu.au>, geoffrey@tafe.sa.edu.au
> writes:
>>'lo all...
>>
>>I'm having a bit of trouble at the moment with lockups on a computer
>>here with an NCR53c810 controller.
****Stuff deleted****
>
>If you want any help with your problem :
>
> 1. Upgrade to rel9 of the driver, available from
> ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi/ncr53c810
>
> Get the patches against 1.2.10 (sortof) and see the READMEs.
> These fix huge numbers of bugs in the distribution driver.
I have a question about the rel9 driver. The driver distributed with the
Linux source tree claims to be rel4 (I think) but the patches at the above
site are for rel7,8,9. Are there other patches or should I just apply them
to 1.2.10?
What does (sortof) mean?
Thanks,
Tim Hespe
System Administrator
University of New South Wales Library
t.hespe@unsw.edu.au
