Re: DC-390: Debian broke it!
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 12:17:11PM -0500, Eddie Maddox wrote:
> > Well, sounds like your patch won't be making it into kernel 2.2.15,
> > either.
>
> I did not send it to Alan for inclusion yet, as I'm waiting a tester who
> reported a problem to report success before.
This one is soooo easy. Post a boot floppy image (AMD K6), tell me where
to grab it from, and I'll do the usual.
(Forgot to mention before. I have the CheapBytes S.U.S.E. 6.2 Evaluation
CD. Booted fine, as I recall. If you like, I could retry that, and any
newer from the S.U.S.E Web site, and tell you 1. the driver, 2. version,
3. if it works.)
> > For myself I bought a Tekram DC-390U2W a few days ago. Besides supporting
> > the newer, nicer drives, the Debian 2.2.7 boot floppies boot now.
>
> So, Debian can not ask you to test an updated boot floppy any more and so
> they won't upgrade ...
I'm keeping my DC-390 card. Nothing wrong with it. Nice little card. I
just need to get work done, too, while waiting for a fixed kernel/distro.
So, you, Debian, anyone..., just post a test boot floppy image somewhere,
and tell me where to find it.
I'll grab it, swap my DC-390 card back in, test your test boot floppy
image, and report. No Problem. (AMD K6, 64 MB.)
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[The below is unrelated to the above.]
> Both work just fine. The sym53c8xx is slightly more optimized for current
> Symbios chips than the ncr53c8xx, but I doubt that you will be able to
> measure the difference. Don't use the tmscsiw that Tekram offers (or used to
> offer, I did not check recently) at their web site.
> Ask Gérard for details, if you really need to know it.
All three are present in /lib/modules/scsi/* (or wherever) on the two
distros mentioned. And I'ld read about them on the list archives and your
Web site. But, when I actually found myself facing the issue I wasn't
sure if the proper one was being selected. Thanks for your assurance.
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Eddie Maddox
eddie@mngovsci.com
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