On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 23:10:50 Steve Fosdick wrote:
As I said, I think the sym driver has supported by card in the past so I'm not sure if that support has been removed or if the driver is just not recognising the device properly.
I checked the source code for the sym driver and it recognises the chip on my SCSI card as a plain 53C810 rather than a 53C810A and the driver did support in the past but not now.
I did however remember that I had a similar SCSI card in another PC so I tried swapping them to see if the other card has the 53C810A on it - maybe it was this other machine on which I remembered having the sym driver work.
The other card didn't have an 53C810A, still just the plain one and so the sym driver still wouldn't work with it but the other card was a genuine NCR one which the first one was not so I thought I'd give things a go with the ncr kernel driver. I have now managed to get it to write a CD without any SCSI errors (I haven't tested the CD yet) and with the generic-mmc cdrdao driver. Fingers crossed that the disk actually works.
Steve.