Subject: Re: SBC Kernel
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. <drkilloran@speakeasy.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/14/2004 08:26:15
>  > > 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.
>
>I'll also throw in that I've never needed to use sbc on any of my /mac68k
>systems; they all run ncrscsi without complaints as far back as 1.4.2.
>
>--

On the other hand, my IIvx insisted on the SBC driver, but that was 
in 1.4.1 - I haven't upgraded it.

Dan Killoran