Subject: Re: New kernels
To: Mark Brinicombe <mark@causality.com>
From: Ale Terlevich <A.I.Terlevich@durham.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 06/02/1997 10:32:43
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Mark Brinicombe wrote:

> Hi,
>   Ok there are a couple of new kernels that people may like to try out.
> They are voy-5324 and a7000-5325 in the 1.2-release/kernels directory.

> Also the csc and ptsc drivers are using the new generic NCR SCSI code
> instead of the sfas code.
> 
> Note: These are test kernels and may still ahve some debugging messages in
> them.

  Some?  After probing and finding the card (Not sure exactly when after 
cos it scrolled too quickly, my machine locked solid with

csc_write_reg() cmd = 0x10

messages repeatedly and very rapidly scrolling down the screen

and then 

0xf1c8???? = 0x00 (?)

 where the hex number was rapidly increasing.

Inbetween the two was some other junk which I couldn't read.
I let it go for some 5 mins, but it never got as far as mounting the disk.

 Ale.