Subject: results if Ultra+Wide SYMBIOS NCR card
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/06/1997 20:14:55
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  Using -current from Friday, April 4, I was unable to keep a system
up with an Ultra Wide NCR chip (Symbios) and an Quantum Atlas 1 drive.
  It started working when I reduced the sync rate to 20Mbs. I had
previously turned off tagged queueing (which, I think we don't support
anyway).
  The failure was that something would go amiss while copying from a
very old 660Mb SCSI1 disk (a former sun3/60 drive). I had set up the
660 while waiting for the Atlas to arrive, and wanted to copy to the
faster drive.
  In particular, things would crash with duplicate allocate inodes,
etc.
  I note that the drive came up as having 20Mb/s rather than 40 in
the boot messages.

  I intend to take a look at the ncr driver next week to see if this
is just that it doesn't know about 40MB/s, or perhaps there is some
hardward problem. (I did go through the SCSI termination dance while
putting the hardware together. It wouldn't boot until I got things
right.)
  I'm just posting now so that others will know of my experience.

  Also, the wds0/wds1 driver seems to be probed and found. I took it
out of my kernel.

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