Subject: Re: SBC vs NCR
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Tim & Alethea Larson <thelarsons3@cox.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/05/2004 07:11:40
Joshua Coombs wrote:

>I've got an SE/30 which theoretically doesn't need the patches
>implimented by the SBC scsi driver varient to operate.  Running
>1.6-stable from approx 2 weeks ago (Hey, a world takes awhile on
>this thing to build!) I notice that if using the NCR driver, I can
>access my cdrom, and zip drive, but the box will randomly panic
>durring heavy disk io.  I also panic every shutdown with the
>following:
>
>syncing disks... done
>sd0(ncrscsi0:0:0:0): polling command not done
>panic: scsipi_execute_xs
>Stopped in pid 205 (reboot) at cpu_Debugger+0x6: unlk a6
>
>Now, if I use the SBC driver, the box is solid as a rock, unless I
>try to access any device other than sd0.  Doing that results in a
>panic.
>  
>

FWIW, I've always had to use the SBC kernel on my SE/30, else have 
problems.  I've never had problems with SBC on it.  It's been quite a 
while, so I don't remember the exact error, unless I wrote it down 
somewhere and have forgotten.

-- 
Tim & Alethea
www.ChristTrek.org