Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 17:37:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 17:37:10 -0500 Received: from mailout01.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.80]:43400 "EHLO mailout01.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 17:36:55 -0500 Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 23:26:22 +0100 (CET) From: eduard.epi@t-online.de (Peter Bornemann) To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= cc: Jens Axboe , Kirk Alexander , Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <20011214183721.H1878-100000@gerard> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, [ISO-8859-1] G?rard Roudier wrote: > By the way, for now, I haven't received any report about sym-2 failing > when sym-1 or ncr succeeds, and my feeling is that this could well be very > unlikely. > Ahemm -- well, maybe I'm the first one. I have a symbios card, which is recognized by lspci: SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic Corp. / Symbios Logic Inc. (formerly NCR) 53c810 (rev 23). This card goes into an endless loop during parity-checking. So tried to disable it for the new sym53cxx in modules.conf: options sym53c8xx mpar:n spar:n This did not help in this case, however. There have been so far three ways to solve this problem: 1. Use the very old ncr53c7,8 or so driver. This is working rather unreliable for me. 2. Use the ncr53c8xx, which works usually well 3. Use sym53c8xx(old) compiled with parity disabled Probably there is a way around that, but somebody trying to install Linux from a SCSI-CDROM with this card for the first time will very likely not succeed. I have seen this with (for instance) Corel-Linux and FreeBSD (same driver). NB Parity checking for me is not really all that important as there is no hardrive connected to that card. Only CD and scanner. Peter B . . |\_-^^^-_/| / (|)_(|) \ ( === X === ) \ ._|_. / ^-_ _-^ ??? - 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/