Re: Linux 2.0.0 NCR scsi instability

Alexander Sanda (alex@darkstar.ping.at)
23 Jun 1996 15:30:16 GMT


In article <Pine.HPP.3.91.960623131906.6395B-100000@jfhp01.jura.uni-tuebingen.de>
Alexander Ehlert <s-eha1@jfhp01.jura.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:

>> 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.
>
>I've got the same mainboard with a gigabyte NCR53c810 controller, running
>2 harddisks, all options enabled(disconnect/reconnect,syncronous
>transfer,...) and had no problems yet...

Same here. I also have the TP4XE, a SC-200 card with 2 IBM drives and
one Toshiba CDROM connected to it.

I have enabled disconnect, and I'am running the NCR 10 MHz sync FAST
SCSI. Kernel 2.0.0 is running for quite a while, and there have been
no problems so far.

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