SCSI Initio 9100UW (INIC-950p chipset) support nunder kernel 2.6.x

SCSI Initio 9100UW (INIC-950p chipset) support nunder kernel 2.6.x

[Rodrigo Severo]

Hi,


I have an Initio 9100UW SCSI board (INIC-950p chipset) running just fine 
with kernel 2.4.24 (yes, I know it's old).

I want to update my kernel do 2.6.8. The question: is there support for 
this board/chipset under kernel 2.6.x?

I looked around a lot and couldn't find much. www.initio.com says their 
code is in the kernel since 2.0.32. Has it been left out for 2.6.x?

Is anyone working on this port? Anyone intending to work on it?

Please CC: directly to me as I'm not subscribed to this mailing list.


TIA,

Rodrigo Severo

Re: SCSI Initio 9100UW (INIC-950p chipset) support nunder kernel 2.6.x

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 01:03:00PM -0300, Rodrigo Severo wrote:
> with kernel 2.4.24 (yes, I know it's old).
> 
> I want to update my kernel do 2.6.8. The question: is there support for 
> this board/chipset under kernel 2.6.x?
> 
> I looked around a lot and couldn't find much. www.initio.com says their 
> code is in the kernel since 2.0.32. Has it been left out for 2.6.x?
> 
> Is anyone working on this port? Anyone intending to work on it?

The driver still exists and actually compiles.  It's marked BROKEN, although
I don't know why.  If you want to help testing we can update it to current
standards.

Re: SCSI Initio 9100UW (INIC-950p chipset) support nunder kernel 2.6.x

[Rodrigo Severo]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:

>On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 01:03:00PM -0300, Rodrigo Severo wrote:
>
>Is anyone working on this port? Anyone intending to work on it?
>  
>
>
>The driver still exists and actually compiles.  It's marked BROKEN, although
>I don't know why.  If you want to help testing we can update it to current
>standards.
>  
>
I can help. What should I do? And even more important, where can I find it?


Rodrigo Severo

Re: SCSI Initio 9100UW (INIC-950p chipset) support nunder kernel 2.6.x

[Rodrigo Severo]

Hi,


Just after I sent my previous message I realized where I could find the 
driver. It's already compiled and modprobed.

I have only one scsi device attached to it: an ECRIX VXA-1 tape drive.

cat /proc/version gives me:

Linux version 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 (root@coppola2) (gcc version 3.3.4 
20040623 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.4-r1, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6)) #4 Wed Sep 22 
13:24:17 BRT 2004

cat /proc/scsi/scsi gives me:

Attached devices:
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00
  Vendor: ECRIX    Model: VXA-1            Rev: 2C8C
  Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 02

so the tape drive is being recognized.

I can't access it though.

I tried "mt -f /dev/nst0" rewind and my first result was:

/dev/nst0: No such file or directory

So I "mknod /dev/nst0 c 9 128" rmmoded and modprobed initio module and 
tried again "mt -f /dev/nst0" just to get:

/dev/nst0: No such device or address

Well, I have a rather ordinary Gentoo installation which means it uses 
devfs (and devfsd). Could it be the one to blame?

What should I do now?

Do you need any extra info?

Please remember to CC straight to me as I'm not subscribed to this list.


TIAA,

Rodrigo Severo
 



Christoph Hellwig wrote:

>The driver still exists and actually compiles.  It's marked BROKEN, although
>I don't know why.  If you want to help testing we can update it to current
>standards.
>
>  
>

Re: SCSI Initio 9100UW (INIC-950p chipset) support nunder kernel 2.6.x

[Pozsar Balazs]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 05:06:51PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 01:03:00PM -0300, Rodrigo Severo wrote:
> > with kernel 2.4.24 (yes, I know it's old).
> > 
> > I want to update my kernel do 2.6.8. The question: is there support for 
> > this board/chipset under kernel 2.6.x?
> > 
> > I looked around a lot and couldn't find much. www.initio.com says their 
> > code is in the kernel since 2.0.32. Has it been left out for 2.6.x?
> > 
> > Is anyone working on this port? Anyone intending to work on it?
> 
> The driver still exists and actually compiles.  It's marked BROKEN, although
> I don't know why.  If you want to help testing we can update it to current
> standards.

It works perfectly for me. (I have 1 disk and 1 cdrom.)

Also note that mandrake ships a kernel with the BROKEN flag patched off.

I do not know why was it marked as such.


-- 
pozsy

Re: SCSI Initio 9100UW (INIC-950p chipset) support nunder kernel 2.6.x

[Christoph Hellwig]

Do you have the st driver loaded?

Re: SCSI Initio 9100UW (INIC-950p chipset) support nunder kernel 2.6.x

[Rodrigo Severo]

Pozsar Balazs wrote:

>On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 05:06:51PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>  
>
>>On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 01:03:00PM -0300, Rodrigo Severo wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>with kernel 2.4.24 (yes, I know it's old).
>>>
>>>I want to update my kernel do 2.6.8. The question: is there support for 
>>>this board/chipset under kernel 2.6.x?
>>>
>>>I looked around a lot and couldn't find much. www.initio.com says their 
>>>code is in the kernel since 2.0.32. Has it been left out for 2.6.x?
>>>
>>>Is anyone working on this port? Anyone intending to work on it?
>>>      
>>>
>>The driver still exists and actually compiles.  It's marked BROKEN, although
>>I don't know why.  If you want to help testing we can update it to current
>>standards.
>>    
>>
>
>It works perfectly for me. (I have 1 disk and 1 cdrom.)
>
>Also note that mandrake ships a kernel with the BROKEN flag patched off.
>
>I do not know why was it marked as such.
>
In fact it works just fine for me too. As Christoph Hellwig latest 
message suggested I was suffering lack-of-st-driver sickness *:">

As far as I can tell the driver is really fine. Maybe it's time to 
remove the BROKEN flag from it? I am not sure who is responsible for 
this but here is my Works For Me vote.


Thanks you all for your help,

Rodrigo Severo

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