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Re: DawiControl & Pinnacle 4.6GB
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Garloff)
Wed Jul 1 14:30:13 1998
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 19:33:39 +0200
From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@kg1.ping.de>
To: Vasilis Vlachoudis <Vasilis.Vlachoudis@cern.ch>
Cc: Linux SCSI list <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.3.95a.980701123833.27362E-100000@rsplus11.cern.ch>; from Vasilis Vlachoudis on Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 12:43:46PM +0200
On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 12:43:46PM +0200, Vasilis Vlachoudis wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a SCSI-II controller DawiControl DC-2974, where I've connected
> a Pinnacle Apex 4.6GB Magneto-optical disk.
> I'm using the RedHat linux with the 2.0.27 kernel (+AFS)
> ..
> How can I make this controller to work?
> Which module should I use?
You got two options:
* AM53C974 driver
* tmscsim (Tekram DC390) driver
The first one has bugs and you may get fs corruption unless you apply a
patch to the driver and enable PROHIBIT_DISCONNECT.
The latter is included in Linux 2.0.31 and in 2.1.xx kernels. The included
version is rev. 1.10/11/12 and doesn't support non DC390-adapters.
I currently work on a new version which does support non-DC390 adpaters.
You can find it on
ftp://student.physik.uni-dortmund.de/pub/linux/kernel/dc390.
Try 1.20q (or 1.20q1 and coment out the #DEFINE DC390_??DEBUG?? statements
at the beginning of the tmscsim file.) The README.tmscsim file contains
instructions on how to install, set up etc. the driver.
This driver works perfectly for a couple of people. However there is a bug
(to be triggered with readcdda), which I'm looking at at the moment.
So take the normal precautions:
* Have a backup, if you got a backup medium
* Make the kernel remount-ro the fs if it detects an error
(tune2fs -e remount-ro /dev/sda?)
* have a copy of the partition table in smome safe location (floppy, IDE disk)
(dd if=/dev/sda of=/mount/floppy/sda_part_table bs=512 count=1)
I myself don't even have a backup, so don't worry too much. But I already
needed the copy of the partition table adn e2fsck did the rest ... (This was
with 1.20g and TagQ enabled.)
--
Kurt Garloff, Dortmund
<K.Garloff@ping.de>
PGP key on http://student.physik.uni-dortmund.de/homepages/garloff
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