On Mon, Dec 17 2007 at 13:41 +0200, "Filippos Papadopoulos" <psybases@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Dec 17, 2007 1:18 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:39:47 +0200 "Filippos Papadopoulos" <psybases@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I have got an INITIO 9100 UW SCSI Controller with an IBM >>> IC35L036UWD210-0 scsi hard disk on a 32 bit x86 system. >>> Currently i have SUSE 10.1 (Kernel 2.6.16). >>> >>> I tried to install OpenSUSE 10.3 (kernel 2.6.22.5) and the latest >>> OpenSUSE 11.0 Alpha 0 (kernel 2.6.24-rc4) but although the initio >>> driver >>> gets loaded during the installation process, yast reports that no hard >>> disk is found. I believe that this isnt a bug in suse's yast but a >>> problem >>> in the initio scsi driver because i also tried to install Fedora 8 >>> (kernel 2.6.23) with the same problem. >>> I have seen the relevant thread "Conflict when loading initio driver" >>> and i suppose that the initio driver isnt fixed yet. >>> I can help testing the new patches in the initio driver if someone is >>> interested. >> initio doesn't seem to have a maintainer... >> >> Are you able to identify any earlier kernel which worked OK? >> > > I have this PC configuration since 2002. The initio driver worked > perfectly with 2.4 kernel series. > With the release of 2.6 kernel series the driver had been marked as > BROKEN and fixed at 2.6.9 > (see at http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/482582?search_string=SCSI%20updates%20for%202.6.9;#482582 > Christoph Hellwig ->don't mark the initio 9100 driver broken) > > >> Maybe it's a new device? If you can get the `lspci -vvxx' output >> for that device we can take a look. >> > > No its not a new device. > - I have found one problem. Please try patch [2] below and report. If it still fails try to enable debugging by setting with patch [1] these values at top of drivers/scsi/initio.c. And send dmsgs. Boaz -------- patch [1] -------- diff --git a/drivers/scsi/initio.c b/drivers/scsi/initio.c index 4c4465d..61edcd2 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/initio.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/initio.c @@ -138,10 +138,10 @@ static struct pci_device_id i91u_pci_devices[] = { }; MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, i91u_pci_devices); -#define DEBUG_INTERRUPT 0 -#define DEBUG_QUEUE 0 -#define DEBUG_STATE 0 -#define INT_DISC 0 +#define DEBUG_INTERRUPT 1 +#define DEBUG_QUEUE 1 +#define DEBUG_STATE 1 +#define INT_DISC 1 /*--- forward references ---*/ static struct scsi_ctrl_blk *initio_find_busy_scb(struct initio_host * host, u16 tarlun); ----------- patch [2] ----------- git-diff --stat -p drivers/scsi/initio.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/initio.c b/drivers/scsi/initio.c index 4c4465d..61595f6 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/initio.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/initio.c @@ -2616,6 +2616,7 @@ static void initio_build_scb(struct initio_host * host, struct scsi_ctrl_blk * c scsi_for_each_sg(cmnd, sglist, cblk->sglen, i) { sg->data = cpu_to_le32((u32)sg_dma_address(sglist)); total_len += sg->len = cpu_to_le32((u32)sg_dma_len(sglist)); + sg++; } cblk->buflen = (scsi_bufflen(cmnd) > total_len) ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
