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Craig Miller <cam@orion.apana.org.au> wrote:
> John Saunders (johns@rd.scitec.com.au) wrote:
> 
> : I would wait just a tad for the release 12 version which should be out RSN.
> : I few people have found & fixed some major bugs in release 11. Also Drew (the
> : driver's auther) has finally gotten a '815 development manual, he had to work
> : from the '710 manual before and it's only 95% the same as the '810/'815 chip.
> : I tried the latest release 11 and it lasted for about 5 seconds after doing
> : "ls -R /" on my machine. It always makes me a little nervous when the SCSI
> : driver dies in the middle of a lot of disk accesses.
> 
> I am currently running ver 11 with a hd & cdrom without any problems
> (so far :) My machine has been up for almost 2 days... thou it has
> only had a light workout.  Linux 1.2.13 dx4/100, asus3spg - whats
> you hardware JS ?

ASUS P/I-P55TP4XE MB, 256K pipeline-burst cache module, P120, 16Meg DRAM.
#9 GXE64 SVGA card, 2Meg DRAM.
NCR53C810 no-name card.
DEC RZ26 1Gig fast SCSI-II (Linux).
QUANTUM Lighting 730Meg fast SCSI-II (DOS + OS/2).
NEC CDR 841 double speed CD-ROM.

On the ISA bus I have a PAS16 sound card and NE2000 ethernet card.

The NCR card is using level triggered IRQ 11.

When I tried the vanilla rel11 (less D.Platt's changes) in my system when I
had a 486DX2/66 with a Gigabyte Saturn 4 MB (all other stuff the same) it
locked up as well but never recovered. The updated rel11 by D.Platt at least
recovered after resetting the SCSI bus. If I hadn't been monitoring the
logs and watching the system as I stressed it, the problem could have gone
unnoticed. I posted my log file to the NCR53C810 mailing list. I also noticed
somebody else post their log that looked very similar to mine, so I guess
I'm not the only one.

BTW, if I restrict access to the Linux partition only then it doesn't seem
to have a problem (although I can't be sure as I didn't run it for very
long). It's only when I have both drives active at the same time that it
dies very quickly. I didn't use the CD-ROM in any testing. I also had
synchronous 5MB/s access going to the both harddisks but not the CD-ROM as
it doesn't support sync access.

Cheers.
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