Do me a favor:

Could you try MD5'ing a large file repeatedly and seeing if you get
inconsistant results? If so, could you try reverting to a previous
version of the driver (say, the one in 1.2) and letting us know what
happens?

Perry

Ernst du Toit writes:
> Hi
> 
> The dead horse rises yet again - my NCR SCSI hates me, again.
> 
> I've been running 1.2.1 without a problem until my disk went the happy
> platter way. With a new disk, I decided to give 1.3_BETA a try.
> 
> I'm running on a ASUS 486SP3 with integrated NCR 53c810 SCSI. I also 
> have an extra NCR SCSI adapter in a PCI slot.
> 
> Installing from tape (I tried nfs too) gets the NCR to fail while
> extracting the first few files (from nfs the very first file does the
> trick) the SCSI bus locks and the box freezes.
> 
> With the tape installation the tape is on ncr1 and the disk on ncr0 - in
> both cases (tape and NFS) its ncr0 that locks.
> 
> Funny thing is that all the newfs and population form the floppy works
> fine...
> 
> Anyone run into this one?
> 
> Rgds
> et