I installed a new kernel with the new sbic driver a moment ago.  I had
to disable sync transfers to make it work with my old Quantum drives.

The kernel worked fine until I tried to cmp a big file against to itself.
The cmp went ok for some time, but then hung.  Now, if I try to access
the second drive, that process immediately hangs (waits forever).  The
other disk still works ok.

I never saw this with the old SCSI driver.  I'm running the 950819
kernel on A3000/25 with 2+8 megs RAM and 170MB/80MB Quantum drives.
This is what ps says:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TT  STAT STARTED       TIME COMMAND
jmarin     116  0.0  0.0    56  328 p0- DW    6:19PM    0:02.29 cmp sys.tar.gz s
jmarin     145  0.0  0.0   184  136 p1  DW+   6:33PM    0:00.15 ls -l

I wonder if anyone else has seen this problem, and if so, if there's
a solution.

  -jm

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