On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 08:58:28AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > 1) I managed to crash an intel N440BX mobo with an fxp card and the
> > > onboard ncr drivers. Lots of network traffic (ping floods) and disk IO
> > > (rawio in parallel on two disks) took it down in something like two
> > > hours. I know this is a known bug, I'm just offering core dumps and
> > > testing services in fixing it if anyone wants to take a stab at it.
> >
> > DG has looked at this extensively and the current feeling is that this is
> > a hardware bug. Using the sym driver instead of the ncr driver
> > apparently helps somewhat, but the problem still happens. The generally
> > recommended option is to buy an Adaptec SCSI controller and use that
> > instead of the on-board SCSI. That works flawlessly.
>
> I can confirm that the sym driver has cured all such problems for us.
> Not a single crash after switching to the sym driver.
Same here on a box that get's severe beating - I've just ordered 3
additional Tecram controllers for that box, hope it remains stable ...
/Jesper
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