Re: DTE 3181e

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Feb 26 2003 - 09:06:07 EST


On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 05:44, Pablo B wrote:
> I am trying to use an ancient DTC 3181e SCSI card with
> the 2.4.20 kernel. However, whenever I load the
> g_NCR5380 module with a SCSI device on, it inmediately
> freezes the computer hard. The system gets completely
> hung, needs a hard reset to restart (no Alt-SysRq
> magic keys available).
> I've been looking for information on the Net, but I
> could not find anybody with similar problems.

The driver is a bit cranky to say the least. It gets deeply
upset if the bus locks for example. I did a lot of work on it
in 2.5 and the 2.5 one seems to be stable and a lot better
on my test box with a similar card (53c400a with no IRQ)

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Feb 28 2003 - 22:00:35 EST