Subject: Sun3/50 SCSI DMA problem - new kernel ready
To: None <port-sun3@NetBSD.ORG>
From: None <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au>
List: port-sun3
Date: 02/14/1996 09:38:20
"Gordon W. Ross" <gwr@mc.com> writes:

  > A few people offered to test the change to the ncr_si driver.
  > The change, by the way, is to hit the DMA engine with "extra"
  > resets at a few key places (clues taken from the Sprite code).
  > The driver does DMA on my 3/50 just fine, but that machine has
  > never shown me the corruption problem, so I don't know if this
  > change really fixes the problem.  Anyway, get the kernel here:

  > 	ftp.netbsd.org
  > 	cd /pub/NetBSD/arch/sun3/install-11-p2
  > 	binary
  > 	get netbsd-gen.gz

This seems to work for me so far. Since the problem used to show
up very quickly, I'd say you have either solved the problem or
dramatically reduced its incidence. Congratulations!

Ian