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From: Kelledin <kelledin+LKML@skarpsey.dyndns.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: AlphaPC+Sym53c8xx driver failure
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 11:55:42 -0500
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Recently I got my hands on a PC164LX system with a Symbios 53c810 
controller.  One of the first things I did was install Debian 
Woody on it, and it went on without too much fuss using kernel 
2.2.20.

Next thing I tried was upgrading to a 2.4 kernel.  Currently I'm 
trying 2.4.16; it boots to the point of scanning the Symbios 
controller, then doesn't get any further (and no terribly 
obvious error message either).  After booting with 
"sym53c8xxx=safe:y,verb:2,debug:0x1fff,wide:0", I got something 
a little more informative...the controller gets to "command 
processing suspended for 10 seconds" to "command processing 
resumed" and finally to "queuepos=2"--and that's all she wrote.

I've dug up two separate options for supporting this controller 
(sym53c8xx_2 and ncr53c8xx); both have about the same results.  
I would think it's a hardware fault, but it works in 2.2.20?

2.4.18 and 2.4.19 did much the same thing when I tried them (they 
failed in many other ways as well, but 2.4.16 doesn't seem to 
hork on itself quite so much, just the sym53c8xxx driver).

-- 
Kelledin
"If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does 
it still cost four figures to fix?"

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