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MD + NCR 53c7,8xx driver = death

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Sat Nov 16 06:55:05 1996

Date: 	Sat, 16 Nov 1996 00:44:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-raid@vger.rutgers.edu


Using the NCR 53c7,8xx driver with MD is certain death at the moment.

mkfs -t ext2 /dev/md0 starts up, gets to about block 39 then the kernel
starts spewing hundreds of:

Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers
Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers
Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers
[ad infinitum]

The ported freeBSD ncr53c8xx works fine.

-Dan


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