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From: geerten kuiper <geerten@bar...>
Subject: Re: Fw: [9fans] some problems
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 19:32:54 +0200

At 09:02 8/28/2001 -0400, Jim wrote:
>I take it you are using SCSI drives on the 53C1010 controller?
>(If not, ignore the rest of the message).

yes

>Do you have any confidence the driver will handle the 53C1010?

apart from the multi processor problem and the difficulty to recover after
an improper shutdown it appears to work nicely...

>Although I can't find the reference now, I have a recollection
>of Nigel Roles saying the 53C1010 wouldn't work properly without
>driver changes.

should I contact Nigel about this ?

>Do you have another controller or ATA drive you could use
>instead?
>

I could borrow the 53c875 from the alpha, but only for testing

>--jim

Geerten.