From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: Fw: [9fans] some problems
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 00:52:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010829045211.9B6FC1998A@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
On Tue Aug 28 13:34:33 EDT 2001, geerten@bart.nl wrote:
> 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.
I've asked Nigel about it, I suspect he's on vacation.
It might be best to install using the 53C875, that would then remove
the doubts about the 53C1010.
As to the MP problem, I think I understand and can give you a fix to
/sys/src/9/pc/mp.c, but if you can't install the system you won't be
able to compile it in and make a new kernel.
--jim
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2001-08-29 4:52 jmk [this message]
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2001-08-29 6:48 g.j.kuiper
2001-08-28 13:02 jmk
2001-08-28 17:32 ` geerten kuiper
2001-08-28 11:46 g.j.kuiper
2001-08-28 11:57 ` Lucio De Re
2001-08-28 11:15 g.j.kuiper
2001-08-28 7:20 g.j.kuiper
2001-08-28 8:23 ` Lucio De Re
2001-08-28 8:23 ` Philippe Anel
2001-08-29 9:05 ` Ian Richards
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