On Mon, Dec 17 2007 at 14:18 +0200, Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > I forgot to ask. 2.6.22 should work. If still fails could you try this 2.6.22.xx kernel? Boaz - 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
