Re: Linux 2.0.0 NCR scsi instability

Harald Koenig (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Sat, 22 Jun 1996 18:40:29 +0200 (MET DST)

> I get all sorts of interesting error messages, like scsi commands
> timing out, resetting scsi bus, and so on when I run the Linux 2.0.0
> kernel on my ASUS P/I-P55TP4XE Pentium motherboard with an NCR53c810
> SCSI controller on an SC-200 plug-in PCI card. These messages are
> followed by some disk corruption. Under 1.99.7, I do not have these
> problems. I will try to narrow the problem down to a specific kernel
> version number shortly.

did you allow DISCONNECTs (CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_DISCONNECT set) ?
this is known to show problems on several plattforms.
try if you can reproduce the problems with CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_DISCONNECT disabled.

Harald

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