Re: Linux 2.0.0 NCR scsi instability
Adam J. Richter (adam@adam.yggdrasil.com)
23 Jun 1996 18:09:31 GMT
In article <199606222011.WAA27404@ceres.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>,
Harald Koenig <koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
>> I get all sorts of interesting error messages, like scsi commands
>> timing out, resetting scsi bus, and so on when I run the Linux 2.0.0
>> kernel on my ASUS P/I-P55TP4XE Pentium motherboard with an NCR53c810
>> SCSI controller on an SC-200 plug-in PCI card. These messages are
>> followed by some disk corruption. Under 1.99.7, I do not have these
>> problems. I will try to narrow the problem down to a specific kernel
>> version number shortly.
>
>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.
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_DISCONNECT is not set, and the hard disk
is the only scsi device on the cable anyhow.
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