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BusLogic Driver - Final Beta Available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard N. Zubkoff)
Tue Sep 26 01:47:08 1995
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 19:07:55 -0700
From: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com>
To: Beta Testers <lnz@dandelion.com>
From lnz@dandelion.com Mon Sep 25 14:56:07 1995
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 14:55:28 -0700
From: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com>
To: Beta Testers <lnz@dandelion.com>
Subject: BusLogic Beta Driver Update
I've updated the beta BusLogic SCSI driver available on ftp.dandelion.com.
This 24 September 1995 version replaces the previous 17 August 1995 version.
As with the previous beta release, there have been relatively few changes
to the driver, and unless problems arise with this beta release, I will be
removing the beta designation in a couple of weeks, and releasing support
for 1.3.x kernels.
The most significant changes are:
o Shared PCI Interrupts
Shared PCI interrupts are now supported and tested for multiple BusLogic
Host Adapters if the motherboard properly supports them.
o Tagged Queuing Changes
Tagged Queuing can now be controlled separately for each Host Adapter or
Target Device via Kernel command line arguments. Consult the source code
for a description of the syntax. This feature should be used primarily
for selectively disabling Tagged Queuing on a specific Target that has a
buggy implementation. Overriding the driver's decision about whether a
specific version of BusLogic firmware is safe for Tagged Queuing is not
a good idea.
o Initialization and Device Reporting
The initialization and device reporting code has been modified to be more
forgiving of Target Devices that need a delay between a SCSI Bus Reset
and being accessed.
Please note that my FTP site does not allow directory listing, so just
login as anonymous, set binary transfers, and then issue the command
"get BusLogic-1.0-beta.tar.gz".
Leonard
