Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 12:59:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 12:59:43 -0500 Received: from aslan.scsiguy.com ([63.229.232.106]:7691 "EHLO aslan.scsiguy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 12:59:42 -0500 Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 11:10:07 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" To: Simon Thornton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: AIC79xx driver on kernel 2.4.19 Message-ID: <2856520000.1047838207@aslan.scsiguy.com> In-Reply-To: <000401c2ebd9$2eb5eb60$0501a8c0@diginfx.org> References: <000401c2ebd9$2eb5eb60$0501a8c0@diginfx.org> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.2 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1936 Lines: 54 > Hi, > > I'm prob. missing something really simple but I'm having probs with the > AIC79xx driver and an adaptec 29320R adapter. > > Kernel: 2.4.19 > aic drvr: aic79xx-1.1.0-source.tar.gz > drvr src: Adaptec web site This is way out of date. Try pulling sources, RPMs, Driver Update Diskettes, etc from: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/ http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/RPM/aic79xx http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/DUD/aic79xx > SCSI Adapter: Adaptec 29320R > Drives connected to U2W, UW and narrow connectors > connected to 32-bit PCI socket > > The device presents itself as two adapters, the narrow/UW one (A) and the > U2W (B). The BIOS is set to use the B adapter to boot from. > > When the kernel > boots it ignores the BIOS preferences for boot order and binds scsi0 to > adapter A and scsi1 to adapter B. This is a problem as the main drives are > on the U2W adapter and the drives on the other adapter are generally > removable; net result is that I have to manually choose the boot device at > startup. > > Quetions: > > 1. Is there anyway to make the kernel driver bind the adapters in a diff > order, .e.g: U2W as primary, UW/narrow as secondary, as in the BIOS > settings? I will have to go find the serial eeprom spec again and see if the primary boot channel is specified. If it is, this is an easy feature to add. I already do something similar for the aic7xxx driver. > 2. When I connect a "Maxtor Atlas 10K II U320" I get repeated debug screens > and it refuses to boot from the drive What firmware is on the Atlas 10K? If it is not >= B440 (which is not even the latest available) it will likely fail spectacularly. -- Justin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/