I have an Alpha PC164 with a plug in NCR card. Not the same thing at al.


On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Kevin Walton wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> > I think we all get burned by the NCR chip. Currently I have case which is
> > hard to repeat where null sense data is shipped back for the request
> > sense associated with some command during probing.
> 
> I used to have lots of problems with the NCR chip with both 1.3.3 and the
> 19981016 snapshot with either an old 1Gb or a modern 4Gb SCSI drive
> internally or externally.
> 
> I then changed the 74F623 as per:
> 
> http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/alpha/faq.html#multia-heat-death
> 
> and I havent had a NCR problem since and the system has now been up for
> over a month.
> 
> Dont know if the NCR chip is affected by heat possibly or if it's totally
> unrelated but it certanily solved all my problems.
> 
> Cheers
> Kev
> 
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