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- On Aug 12, 10:01am, K.X. Saunders wrote:
- >
- > The last kernel I tried was #450, which worked fine. I downloaded
- > #580 and it hung after sync was set up (from memory):
- > sbic_wait TIMEO @11?? ... csr=0x41
- >
- > Anyway, I'd seen it on this list many times. So I did a binpatch:
- > binpatch -l -s _inhibit_sync -r 1 vmunix.580
- ^^
- >
- > It still tried to go syncronous and hung.
- >
- > And I remember feeling smug when the A2000 users were SOL and I was
- > running fine ;-). Sigh.
-
- Inhibit_sync is a byte array - if you patch the longword to 1, you will
- be inhibiting synchronous transfer on unit 3 (which is fine if that's what
- you wanted - but I suspect your device id is 0, in which case you either want
- to replace a byte or use a longword value of 0x01000000).
-
- Michael
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