David Greenman wrote:
>
> >> So if this problem is NOT related to specific hardware, how can we get
> >> the driver fixed?
> >
> >Talk to the maintainer (David). We've offered him cores and kernels
> >before. Alternatively, you'll need to experiment with your setup to
> >determine what characterises the failures and help David out with more
> >data.
>
> Hotmail has troubleshooted the problem down to the NCR controller. It
> appears that the problem only occurs when using one of those. If they plug
> in an Adaptec 2940 and use it instead of the onboard NCR then the problems
> disappear.
Well that's not good, since I have almost convinced my boss to replace
the crappy IDE drives on our shiny new Intel N440BX mb's with scsi
drives since the controller is built in. :-/ Does this look like a
soluble problem, or is it just going to be a case of "don't do that?"
Anything I can do to help mail me and let me know.
Doug
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