SCSI Initio 9100UW (INIC-950p chipset) support nunder kernel 2.6.x
Hi,
I have an Initio 9100UW SCSI board (INIC-950p chipset) running just fine with kernel 2.4.24 (yes, I know it's old).
I want to update my kernel do 2.6.8. The question: is there support for this board/chipset under kernel 2.6.x?
I looked around a lot and couldn't find much. www.initio.com says their code is in the kernel since 2.0.32. Has it been left out for 2.6.x?
Is anyone working on this port? Anyone intending to work on it?
Please CC: directly to me as I'm not subscribed to this mailing list.
TIA,
Rodrigo Severo
Quoted 9 lines · Rodrigo Severo
with kernel 2.4.24 (yes, I know it's old).
I want to update my kernel do 2.6.8. The question: is there support for this board/chipset under kernel 2.6.x?
I looked around a lot and couldn't find much. www.initio.com says their code is in the kernel since 2.0.32. Has it been left out for 2.6.x?
Is anyone working on this port? Anyone intending to work on it?
The driver still exists and actually compiles. It's marked BROKEN, although I don't know why. If you want to help testing we can update it to current standards.
Quoted 11 lines · Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 01:03:00PM -0300, Rodrigo Severo wrote:
Is anyone working on this port? Anyone intending to work on it?
The driver still exists and actually compiles. It's marked BROKEN, although I don't know why. If you want to help testing we can update it to current standards.
I can help. What should I do? And even more important, where can I find it?
Rodrigo Severo
Hi,
Just after I sent my previous message I realized where I could find the driver. It's already compiled and modprobed.
I have only one scsi device attached to it: an ECRIX VXA-1 tape drive.
cat /proc/version gives me:
Linux version 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 (root@coppola2) (gcc version 3.3.4 20040623 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.4-r1, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6)) #4 Wed Sep 22 13:24:17 BRT 2004
cat /proc/scsi/scsi gives me:
Attached devices:
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00
Vendor: ECRIX Model: VXA-1 Rev: 2C8C
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
so the tape drive is being recognized.
I can't access it though.
I tried "mt -f /dev/nst0" rewind and my first result was:
/dev/nst0: No such file or directory
So I "mknod /dev/nst0 c 9 128" rmmoded and modprobed initio module and tried again "mt -f /dev/nst0" just to get:
/dev/nst0: No such device or address
Well, I have a rather ordinary Gentoo installation which means it uses devfs (and devfsd). Could it be the one to blame?
What should I do now?
Do you need any extra info?
Please remember to CC straight to me as I'm not subscribed to this list.
TIAA,
Rodrigo Severo
Quoted 6 lines · Christoph Hellwig
The driver still exists and actually compiles. It's marked BROKEN, although I don't know why. If you want to help testing we can update it to current standards.
Do you have the st driver loaded?
Quoted 6 lines · Christoph Hellwig
Quoted 5 lines · Rodrigo Severo
with kernel 2.4.24 (yes, I know it's old).
I want to update my kernel do 2.6.8. The question: is there support for this board/chipset under kernel 2.6.x?
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I looked around a lot and couldn't find much. www.initio.com says their code is in the kernel since 2.0.32. Has it been left out for 2.6.x?
Is anyone working on this port? Anyone intending to work on it?
The driver still exists and actually compiles. It's marked BROKEN, although I don't know why. If you want to help testing we can update it to current standards.
It works perfectly for me. (I have 1 disk and 1 cdrom.)
Also note that mandrake ships a kernel with the BROKEN flag patched off.
I do not know why was it marked as such.
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Quoted 21 lines · Pozsar Balazs
Quoted 7 lines · Christoph Hellwig
Quoted 4 lines · Rodrigo Severo
with kernel 2.4.24 (yes, I know it's old).
I want to update my kernel do 2.6.8. The question: is there support for this board/chipset under kernel 2.6.x?
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I looked around a lot and couldn't find much. www.initio.com says their code is in the kernel since 2.0.32. Has it been left out for 2.6.x?
Is anyone working on this port? Anyone intending to work on it?
The driver still exists and actually compiles. It's marked BROKEN, although I don't know why. If you want to help testing we can update it to current standards.
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It works perfectly for me. (I have 1 disk and 1 cdrom.)
Also note that mandrake ships a kernel with the BROKEN flag patched off.
I do not know why was it marked as such.
In fact it works just fine for me too. As Christoph Hellwig latest message suggested I was suffering lack-of-st-driver sickness *:">
As far as I can tell the driver is really fine. Maybe it's time to remove the BROKEN flag from it? I am not sure who is responsible for this but here is my Works For Me vote.
Thanks you all for your help,
Rodrigo Severo
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