Subject: Re: crash (NCR driver?)
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@cordouan.ibp.fr>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/08/1997 10:12:59
Manuel Bouyer writes:
> > What kind of problems aren't there with the NCR driver?
>
> I'm using an ncr adapter on a pentium with a 1G scsi drive, a magneto-optical
> drive and, from time to time a dat or hexabyte, and I never had any problems
> in 3 years. I also have another pentium with 4*4 Gb scsi drives on an ncr
> adapter, wich runs fine too.
>
> The problems with this driver seems to be really hw-depedant.
Totally. One machine can run perfectly and another can fail to run at
all. Mycroft once told me it seems to be cache coherency and timing
dependent, though I can't comment myself as thats all black magic to
me.
Perry