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Re: multi NCR SCSI bus question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?=)
Wed May 24 14:38:44 2000

Date:	Wed, 24 May 2000 19:38:43 +0200 (CEST)
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= <groudier@club-internet.fr>
To: Linda Walsh <law@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
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On Wed, 24 May 2000, Linda Walsh wrote:

> This may be a "duh" question, but I have a box that has
> 3 ncr53c8xx SCSI controllers on it (all same variety).  If gen a kernel w/
> the ncr53c8xx driver as a module, it works fine.  But if I gen it hard coded
> in, it only picks up the first bus.  Is this a known feature?

Yes it is. And this also disables kernel messages at boot. But, with only
2 controllers, the driver will find 4 buses which is a 100% win. :-)

To be serious, could you, please, provide boot log messages and the PCI
device configuration informations. Thanks.

  Gerard.


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