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To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
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Subject: Re: ncr53c810 driver in stable/current 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 01:03:56 -0700
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>	for the second time today, my -stable machine has crashed,
>and hung while trying to reboot.  the machine is using an ncr53c810
>SCSI controller (the ASUS PC-200(sp?)) is the only SCSI controller
>in the box....
>
>	Now, I can live with the crashes, for now, but the fact that
>it is hanging on reboots is becoming a royal pain...
>
>	The last time I reported this, someone made mention that 
>the cause was the NCR driver not switching modes or something like 
>that, so that it can't dump core...?  
>
>	If anyone remembers this thread, or knows what the hell I'm
>talking about...has this been fixed in -current?

   We've seen this problem on freefall (which uses the NCR controller). It
likes to hang when we try to reboot it. I don't recall any fixes for this,
and I don't know what causes it.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project