In article <199906270200.MAA29764@balrog.supp.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au>,
Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org> wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>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:
>
>	---- common to 1.3.3 and 1.4 ----
>	ncr0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0: ncr 53c810a fast10 scsi
>	ncr0: interrupting at irq 9
>	ncr0: minsync=25, maxsync=206, maxoffs=8, 16 dwords burst, normal dma fifo
>	ncr0: single-ended, open drain IRQ driver
>	---- on 1.3.3 ----
>	ncr0: restart (scsi reset).
>	---- on 1.4 ----
>	CACHE TEST FAILURE: host wrote 1, ncr read 3827772
>	CACHE TEST FAILURE: ncr wrote 2, host read 0
>	CACHE INCORRECTLY CONFIGURED
>	---- END ----
>
>Any ideas from anyone?  I can find nothing in the archives about this...

Disable the cache in the kernel. I am not sure if there is an option to do
that, but there might be in the bios.

christos