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SubjectRe: DPT SCSI & Anything > 1.2.13
On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, Jos Vos wrote:

> I had the same problem with another DPT controller. I'm quite sure that
> the "stock" 1.2.13 kernel at least has _some_ problems and causes the above
> message.
> >From the ftp-site of author of the DPT-driver I got a precompiled kernel
> 1.2.x that worked, but unfortunately, the source of that particular
> kernel was not available anymore (it must have contained patches,
> or it was compiled in a special way...) and I couldn't use it.
>
> If you need or want to stay with 1.2.13, you'll probably have a problem.
> I wanted to do the same, but now I'm running 1.3.76, which basically
> works fine (some minor networking problems).
>
> You may try 1.3.57, which seem to be one of the most stable 1.3.x kernels.
> The DPT driver also worked fine there.

Ah, I had the same problem awhile ago. It's not the kernel, it's gcc
2.7.x. Edit your kernel's Makefile and change the CFLAGS to be:

CFLAGS = -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
-fno-strength-reduce

(1 line)

Then recompile and it should work. It's a gcc bug.

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