On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:20:40 Chris Glover wrote:
Have you tryed using the sym53c8xx kernel module instead of the ncr53c8xx. This is an updated driver, your old one may be having problems controling your new writer.
Thanks Chris.
I seem to remember using the sym53c8xx driver in the past, but when I try to load it now I get:
/lib/modules/2.4.13/kernel/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx.o: init_module: No such deviceHint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.4.13/kernel/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.13/kernel/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.13/kernel/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx.o: insmod sym53c8xx failed
From 'cat /proc/pci' I get:
Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Non-VGA unclassified device: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic (formerly NCR) 53c810 (rev 1). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=64. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd8ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xefffff00 [0xefffffff].
It is quite an old SCSI card and I don't think the card does more than 10Mb/s but I though SCSI devices were supposed to negotiate all these things.
I wonder if the sym53c8xx driver has changed significantly between kernel 2.2 and the 2.4.13 I am running now.
Steve.