On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 18:44 +0200, Filippos Papadopoulos wrote: > On Jan 11, 2008 5:44 PM, James Bottomley > <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > I havent reported "initio: I/O port range 0x0 is busy." > > > > Sorry ... we appear to have several reporters of different bugs in this > > thread. That message was copied by Chuck Ebbert from a Red Hat > > bugzilla ... I was assuming it was the same problem. > > > > > I applied the patch on 2.6.24-rc6-git9 but unfortunatelly same thing happens. > > > > First off, has this driver ever worked for you in 2.6? Just booting > > SLES9 (2.6.5) or RHEL4 (2.6.9) ... or one of their open equivalents to > > check a really old kernel would be helpful. If you can get it to work, > > then we can proceed with a patch reversion regime based on the > > assumption that the problem is a recent commit. > > Yes it works under 2.6.16.13. See the beginning of this thread, i > mention there some things about newer versions. Thanks, actually, I see this: > 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 > drivergets loaded during the installation process, yast reports that no hard > disk is found. Could you try with a vanilla 2.6.22 kernel? The reason for all of this is that 2.6.22 predates Alan's conversion of this driver (which was my 95% candidate for the source of the bug). I want you to try the vanilla kernel just in case the opensuse one contains a backport. Thanks, James - 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
