Re: aha152x: mount blank CD causes kernel panic.

Jim Woodward (jim@jim.southcom.com.au)
Fri, 29 Oct 1999 13:57:48 +1100 (EST)


On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> In the absence of scsi errors it is rock solid.
>
> > I'd be intereste to see if some performance increases can be made with
> > this card/driver - I noticed what I'm using is very similar, although mine
> > (unsure if others are different) has a on-board bootable BIOS..
>
> The best way to improve the performance would be to buy a pci scsi card 8)
> A cheap ncr53c8xx controller will leave any ISA controller for dead, let alone
> cheap ISA controllers.

There is a method in my madness, the box im running it on is a 486 DX2/80
with VESA, in the absense of not having a VESA scsi controller the only
option is possibly a a faster ISA controller, or replacing the system
board with a 486 PCI board (if i could find one) or a Pentium :)

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