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diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/tmscsim.txt b/Documentation/scsi/tmscsim.txt index e165229adf5..3303d218b32 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/tmscsim.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/tmscsim.txt @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Tekram DC390(T) adapter. This is where the name comes from: tm = Tekram scsi = SCSI driver, m = AMD (?) as opposed to w for the DC390W/U/F (NCR53c8X5, X=2/7) driver. Yes, there was also a driver for the latter, tmscsiw, which supported DC390W/U/F adapters. It's not maintained any more, -as the ncr53c8xx is perfectly supporting these adpaters since some time. +as the ncr53c8xx is perfectly supporting these adapters since some time. The driver first appeared in April 1996, exclusively supported the DC390 and has been enhanced since then in various steps. In May 1998 support for @@ -102,14 +102,14 @@ So take at least the following measures: ftp://student.physik.uni-dortmund.de/pub/linux/kernel/bootdisk.gz One more warning: I used to overclock my PCI bus to 41.67 MHz. My Tekram -DC390F (Sym53c875) accepted this as well as my Millenium. But the Am53C974 +DC390F (Sym53c875) accepted this as well as my Millennium. But the Am53C974 produced errors and started to corrupt my disks. So don't do that! A 37.50 MHz PCI bus works for me, though, but I don't recommend using higher clocks than the 33.33 MHz being in the PCI spec. If you want to share the IRQ with another device and the driver refuses to do so, you might succeed with changing the DC390_IRQ type in tmscsim.c to -SA_SHIRQ | SA_INTERRUPT. +IRQF_SHARED | IRQF_DISABLED. 3.Features @@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ Please see http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/dc390/problems.html replaced by the dev index of your scanner). You may try to reset your SCSI bus afterwards (echo "RESET" >/proc/scsi/tmscsim/?). The problem seems to be solved as of 2.0d18, thanks to Andreas Rick. -* If there is a valid partition table, the driver will use it for determing +* If there is a valid partition table, the driver will use it for determining the mapping. If there's none, a reasonable mapping (Symbios-like) will be assumed. Other operating systems may not like this mapping, though it's consistent with the BIOS' behaviour. Old DC390 drivers ignored the @@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ Thanks to Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, the FSF people, the XFree86 team and all the others for the wonderful OS and software. Thanks to C.L. Huang and Philip Giang (Tekram) for the initial driver release and support. -Thanks to Doug Ledford, Gérard Roudier for support with SCSI coding. +Thanks to Doug Ledford, GĂ©rard Roudier for support with SCSI coding. Thanks to a lot of people (espec. Chiaki Ishikawa, Andreas Haumer, Hubert Tonneau) for intensively testing the driver (and even risking data loss doing this during early revisions). |