On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:09:01 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > (cc linux-scsi) > > On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:30:41 +1000 Stephen Harker <s.harker@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > The SCSI Initio a100u2w driver compiles as a module, loads, but > > hangs on a powerpc machine. > > > > I am running linux (YellowDog 5.0) on a PowerMac 7600. I am using > > self-compiled kernels. The initio a100u2w card runs successfully > > under Mac OSX and OS9. In the past when I tried the a100u2w module > > under kernel 2.4 and early 2.6 it would hang for at least 30 minutes > > (in the end I rebooted the machine). > > > > I thought I would try again recently using 2.6.23.14 and 2.6.25.4 > > kernels. This was more successful in that the machine did not hang > > seemingly forever. However, the module seems to fail in > > initialisation and no drive partitions are seen/mounted. I tried > > removing the module (rmmod), the reloading it (modprobe) and similar > > issues are noted. Output from dmesg shows the problems. The > > following is the output from dmesg under 2.6.25.4, look for scsi2 and > > initio and inia100. I am afraid that I am away from home at present > > and don't have all the information that may be desirable. I hope the > > following is adequate. The kernel and system run well except for this > > one module. Seems that this driver has some bugs on big endian architectures (though I've not looked at the patch): http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=121613124207253&w=2 -- 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
