Re: AM53C974 error
Yann Dupont (dupont@unantes.univ-nantes.fr)
Thu, 14 Nov 1996 09:22:22 +0100
Nuno Oliveira writes:
>
> >
> > smulan@bahnhof.se writes:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > I got a CD-R connect to my AM53C974, when i try to mount the CD i get the
> > > following error message: (I'm running 2.0.25)
> ...
> >
> > I have the same kind of error with an archive viper DAT. It's ok to read
> > DAT, but if I try to write, I get those errors.
> >
> > After 2/3 of those errors, the machine freeze. I once saw a message
> > like this :
> > "scsi_free:Trying to free unused memory"
> >
>
> Yann,
>
> Recently I got similar problems with the AM53C974 driver included in
> 2.0.x. I was using a Tekram DC390 card together with an optical drive.
> Reading from the drive was generally ok, but writing would cause these
> "scsi_free:Trying to free unused memory" errors almost immediately,
> followed by a complete freeze. Since the drive worked fine under
> Win95, a driver problem was suspected. At their site (ftp.tekram.com) I
> found a recent driver (Oct. 96) that seems to work fine under 2.0.23.
> If you're using this type of adapter, give it a try.
Well, thanks a lot !
I'll give it a try immediatly !
--
Yann.
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