Subject: re: ncr53c810 driver
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Hal Murray <murray@pa.dec.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 06/09/2000 23:54:36
> 'ncr' driver is dead.  long live 'siop'.. :)

I think I'm missing the big picture.  If ncr is buggy and siop is 
the true way, why is ncr still used in so many of the Alpha config 
files?  In particular, INSTALL and GENERIC. 

  siop is used in FRAU-FARBISSINA and YEAH-BABY
  ncr is used in ALPHA, BABYLON, ENIWETOK GENERIC, INSTALL, MINI-ME, and RAWHIDE


I tried to jump on the bandwagon and make a kernel that used siop 
rather than ncr and this is what I got.  Is there something obvious 
I did wrong?  (I just changed both places in my config file where 
ncr occurred to siop.) 


probe(siop0:6:0): command timeout
siop0: scsi bus reset
cmd 0xfffffe00000a47e8 (target 6) in reset list
cmd 0xfffffe00000a47e8 about to be processed
siop0: unhandled scsi interrupt, sist0=0x0 sist1=0x10 sstat1=0x8 DSA=0x829bce60
DSP=0x58
siop0: scsi bus reset
siop0: unhandled scsi interrupt, sist0=0x40 sist1=0x10 sstat1=0xe DSA=0x829bcf00
 DSP=0x20
probe(siop0:6:0): command timeout
siop0: scsi bus reset
cmd 0xfffffe00000a4898 (target 6) in reset list
cmd 0xfffffe00000a4898 about to be processed
siop0: unhandled scsi interrupt, sist0=0x0 sist1=0x10 sstat1=0x8 DSA=0x829bcfa0
DSP=0x58
siop0: scsi bus reset
siop0: unhandled scsi interrupt, sist0=0x40 sist1=0x10 sstat1=0xe DSA=0x829bd040
 DSP=0x20