Subject: Re: trouble booting Aug 1 kernel on mac68k
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
List: current-users
Date: 08/10/1998 16:13:33
On Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 12:40:32AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Aug 1998 16:59:03 +0930 (CST) 
>  blymn@baea.com.au (Brett Lymn) wrote:
> 
>  > I too am seeing this on a i386 machine with a ncr.  If I wait for long
>  > enough I am rewarded with a script timeout but the thing never boots
>  > regardless.
> 
> The NCR problem was a bug in the NCR driver (race condition) that only
> appeared after I converted the SCSI code to use pools for scsipi_xfer
> structures.
> 
> Ross Harvey committed a fix to the NCR bug the other day.

Yeah, but people are seeing a similar problem on 3 different architectures
and 3 different controllers. So either it is strictly an MI problem, and
the ncr fix works around it, or it is a problem in all 3 drivers, which
only came to light because of the pool changes.

- Frank