On Jun 13, 2004, at 10:06 AM, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> So, the idea is, if you get SCSI timeouts or other untoward behavior
> with the ncrscsi driver (GENERIC), you're supposed to try the sbc
> driver (GENERICSBC). I don't recall any reports from this list of
> anyone ever have trouble with the sbc driver, or any bug reports that
> were solved by switching to the ncrscsi driver (but I haven't done a
> search). Does anyone have hardware doesn't work with the sbc driver?
> Perhaps we could avoid a lot of questions by making it the default?

Yes.  Some SCSI devices that work fine with the ncrscsi driver don't 
work at all with the SBC driver.  I have a tape drive that has this 
problem.  Also the SBC driver tends to be slower than the ncrsci driver 
on the same hardware.  But this is all from my memory which is know to 
be faulty.

-bob