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Re: NCR5380.c: IO request dead lock within the _main() function?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (christian Montanari)
Sat Jun 10 02:23:42 2000

From:	christian Montanari <christian@montanari.f9.co.uk>
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Date:	Sat, 10 Jun 2000 07:20:52 +0100 (BST)
To:	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Alan Cox writes:

 > > OK, lets say... Is it worth it? Are they many duds (I am not one) out
 > > there trying to use this puny card for heavy transfer (interrupts do
 > > not work) by polling the driver's addresses? etc...
 > 
 > Interrupts work on most of those cards actually. There is even someone making
 > PCI variants of these horrors!!
 > 
Can I then unsolder the PNP selector on the card, would it it wise to try?

Christian.


PS. for the 'diff -u' I should first try a bit more my stuff on
transfer, and send it when it is cleaner... I am not a scsi guru, but I 
can understand phases (states) and interrupts!

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