[7048] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: NCR53C8xx driver
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Lever)
Wed Aug 25 14:06:38 1999
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 14:04:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chuck Lever <cel@monkey.org>
To: Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990825192635.5822A-100000@localhost>
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Gerard Roudier wrote:
> > i haven't seen any reference to i960 or AMI firmware.
>
> But your system has a subordinate PCI BUS (#1) on which your 896 is
> installed and such a RAID option is hopefully available.
i can check on this, but the server was donated to us with no
documentation or hard drives. where would i find this option? in the
SCSI BIOS configuration?
> I have no idea about the cause that precludes 2.2.10/11 from booting on
> your system. What I may recommend you is to make the simplest possible
> kernel and to try to boot it. Only configure required options. The
> SYM53C8XX driver should be fine under 2.2.10/11, so only configure this
> one and not both NCR53C8XX and SYM53C8XX. Remove complex things as RAID,
> module support and donnot configure drivers and options that are not
> absolutely needed.
my 2.2.11 config is pretty simple, and only includes NCR53C8xx. module
support is enabled in the kernel, but i don't build or install any
modules.
i think there is a bug in the driver that is exercised by lilo. if i
install RH6.0 and use the NCR53C8xx driver that is installed with it,
everything works until i run lilo to install a new kernel. then the
partition table is corrupt. i don't have much evidence of this (like a
SCSI log) but it seems likely since things only break after running lilo.
since the RH6.0 installation includes the NCR driver as a module, i could
rebuild just the module if there is a bug. otherwise, i can't install a
new kernel on the machine.
- Chuck Lever
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