On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 03:06:00PM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > On the other hand, their numbering DC-395 may let think that it is
> > some successor to the DC-390 series. Not only this is untrue, but
> > the DC-395 looks like a 10 years old design based SCSI chip.
>
> Interesting. Is the 395 a new board? Does Linux support it?
> Hopefully the hardware database/HOWTO (whatever it is these days) has
> a warn-off in it.
The design is indeed similar to the old AM53C974 design. This allows for
rather good price SCSI controllers, but does indeed result in a number of
interrupts per SCSI command. At current SCSI speeds, your CPU is fast enough
to handle this, but it could of course do something more useful ...
There is a driver, see
http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/dc395/
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/garloff/linux/dc395/
However, there is a reason, why I did not send it to Linus and Alan dor
2.3/2.2 inclusion: While the driver works perfectly for most people, I have
a few testers which see bad errors, including data corruption. I suspect
some random data being picked up by the FIFO on some phase change ...
Before I'm not able to track down and fix that one, I won't submit it for
release.
Regards,
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