Subject: Re: New kernels
To: Marcus Deubel <i105@stio1.sari.fh-wuerzburg.de>
From: Scott Stevens <s.k.stevens@ic.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 06/03/1997 14:40:05
Marcus Deubel writes:
> Hi Mark,
>
> the same on my machine
>
> Ciao,
>
> Marcus Deubel
>
> <Deubel@informatik.fh-wuerzburg.de>
> <Deubel@stio1.fh-wuerzburg.de>
> <Deubel@rz100.fh-wuerzburg.de>
>
> On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Ale Terlevich wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > 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.
Yeah, I'll get Mark to comment out this debugging code...
Sorry about that.
> > Ale.
Cheers Scott
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