[284] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: T130B
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Jacobs)
Thu Jun 22 18:22:05 1995
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 16:34:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Jacobs <jay@CFTNet.com>
To: Kevin Lentin <kevinl@cs.monash.edu.au>
cc: lermen@elserv.ffm.fgan.de, jgotts@engin.umich.edu,
linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199506221216.WAA09633@fangorn.cs.monash.edu.au>
On Thu, 22 Jun 1995, Kevin Lentin wrote:
> Hans Lermen Wrote ...
> > >
> > > >With LILO options:
> > > > append = "ncr53480=0x358,255"
> > > > append = "ncr5380=0x358,255"
> > > > append = "ncr53c400=0x350,255"
> > >
> > > Are you sure about the second append option? That exact line worked for my
> > > friend's Trantor T130B and his Plextor 6 Plex and NEC 3x SCSI-II drives. Did
> > > you remeber to re-run lilo after you added the line?
> > >
> >
> > May I perhaps add some silly remarks:
> >
> > Only ncr5380= (second line above) will be recognized by Linux-1.2.10.
> > All other ncr53...= won't reach the driver because init/main.c
> > doesn't expect such a commandline string.
> >
> > I did post this quite a long time ago, but (at least untill 1.3.3) the
> > patch is not part of any kernel (except of mine and the kernels of
> > those who verified that I'm right).
>
> Sorry, but the above case is different. This is not related to the 53c710
> etc drivers. ncr53c400= is accepted by the ncr53c400 patch on sunsite which
> extends the generic NCR5380 driver to support the 53c400 (which contains a
> 5380 core).
Hmm, this is rather odd since I un-tar'ed the source tree for Linux-1.2.10,
applied the patch Hans sent, and added this to LILO:
append = "ncr5380=0x358,255"
It works just fine now, but when I tried using the 53c400 patch from sunsite
/dev/scd0 was not recognized as a block dev.
But my system is very happy now. :-) Thanks.
Jay
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