DC390 SCSI driver update (2.0d)

Kurt Garloff (K.Garloff@ping.de)
Fri, 25 Dec 1998 20:42:39 +0100


Hi,

I sent the patches to update the DC390/AM53C974/tmscsim PCI SCSI driver to
2.0d to Alan and Linus for inclusion.

Just have a look at the new web page:
http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/dc390/

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2.0c4 has been out for 4 weeks now and successfully tested by many people, so 2.0d is definitely stable.

Since the version (2.0b/2.0b1) included into the kernel, there are a few changes: * Fixed initialization. There were error messages on SMP machines, harmless, though. (2.0b1) * I had used the AM53C974 Erase on Write feature to allow for better information for debugging. This had to be removed, as it caused problems to one of my testers (Hubert). (2.0b2/3) * When the target initiated a sync nego with unacceptable parameters, the driver misbehaved. This was fixed in 2.0c3. * I tried to do a performance optimization by reading the remaining bytes of multibyte SCSI messages without triggering additional IRQs, but as it takes quite some time until the next bvytes arrive, this did not result in better performance. I removed this, again. * Put my new e-mail address and new web site into MAINTAINER and the docu of the driver. The web site now contains not only the driver's source code but also some useful info ...

And have some nice X-mas days ...

-- 
Kurt Garloff <kurt@garloff.de>                         [Dortmund, FRG]  
Plasma physics, high perf. computing            [Linux-ix86,-axp, DUX]
PGP key on http://www.garloff.de/kurt/      [Linux SCSI driver: DC390]

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