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From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: Nik Clayton <nik@blueberry.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: 2.1.7: ncr and de driver increasingly fickle
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On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Nik Clayton wrote:

> On my 2.1.5 system, I never heard a complaint from the de driver, and the
> ncr driver might occasionally complain 
> 
>     /kernel: sd1(ncr0:1:0): extraneous data discarded.

....

>     ncr0 <ncr 53c810 scsi> rev 2 int a irq 11 on pc i0:12
>     (ncr0:0:0): "FUJITSU M2952S-512 0124" type 0 fixed SCSI 2

Curious.  Am I correct in observing that everyone reporting this
problem with the ncr driver, including myself, has a Fujitsu
disk?

Looking through the mailing list archives I found previous
mention that the error might indicate bad cabling, but I tried a
bunch of different cables and configurations of devices on the
bus with no change in behavior.

-john