On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 12:00:12PM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:

> I tried to boot a generic 1.4 kernel on my noname AMD 586/160 with an
> ASUS NCR SCSI controller that is currently running 1.3.3 quite happily.
> It has real problems configuring the controller and then of course
> doesn't find any disks.  Here's the dmesg output for old and new:

Hmm...  is that machine _really_ a 160Mhz machine?  Or just an overclocked
133?  My guess is that if the PCI bus is running at the out-of-spec speed
of 40Mhz (160/4) that the SCSI controller doesn't like it, and that the
timings for the driver changed in 1.4 just enough to tick it off.

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