Re: 2.1.110 and NCR driver
Richard Gooch (Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Tue, 21 Jul 1998 22:20:12 +1000
Richard Gooch writes:
> Hi, all. I just tried 2.1.110 on a machine with the NCR 53c810 SCSI
> card, and I get the following messages:
>
> ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 16, function 0
> ncr53c8xx: 53c810 detected
> ncr53c810-0: rev=0x02, base=0xe4000000, io_port=0x6500, irq=9
> ncr53c810-0: can't map memory mapped IO region
> ncr53c810-0: detaching
>
> and since the root FS is accessed through this controller, the machine
> is rooted :-( :-(
>
> On the other hand, with 2.1.104, I get the following:
>
> ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 16, function 0
> ncr53c8xx: 53c810 detected
> ncr53c810-0: rev=0x02, base=0xe4000000, io_port=0x6500, irq=9
> ncr53c810-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking
> ncr53c810-0: restart (scsi reset).
> scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - revision 2.5f
> scsi : 1 host.
>
> which is definately preferred! Note that 2.1.110 has revision 3.0g of
> the NCR driver.
Addendum: I've just tried 2.1.109 on this machine, and it also finds
the SCSI host OK. It has revision 3.0e of the NCR driver.
Regards,
Richard....
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