> > So, the idea is, if you get SCSI timeouts or other untoward behavior
> > with the ncrscsi driver (GENERIC), you're supposed to try the sbc
> > driver (GENERICSBC). I don't recall any reports from this list of
> > anyone ever have trouble with the sbc driver, or any bug reports that
> > were solved by switching to the ncrscsi driver (but I haven't done a
> > search). Does anyone have hardware doesn't work with the sbc driver?
> > Perhaps we could avoid a lot of questions by making it the default?
> 
> Yes.  Some SCSI devices that work fine with the ncrscsi driver don't 
> work at all with the SBC driver.  I have a tape drive that has this 
> problem.  Also the SBC driver tends to be slower than the ncrsci driver 
> on the same hardware.  But this is all from my memory which is know to 
> be faulty.

I'll also throw in that I've never needed to use sbc on any of my /mac68k
systems; they all run ncrscsi without complaints as far back as 1.4.2.

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