Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 05 Apr 2004 01:36:39 +1000 | From | Stuart Longland <> | Subject | Who maintains the atp870u driver? (ACARD PCI SCSI) |
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Hi All, Does anyone still maintain the atp870u SCSI driver, and if so, is it possible for them to contact me? I had a look in the atp870u.c file -- if I read this correctly, this driver hasn't changed much in the last few years. (Last log entry was in 2001).
Basically, I recently acquired a PCI ACARD SCSI card (can't recall what chipset exactly) and decided to use that in a Gateway Microserver server appliance I had laying around. The intent was to plug it into an external tower of hard drives to make a nice compact fileserver for lans.
The machine is a clone of the Cobalt Qube 2 (2800) server appliance, running a 250MHz (?) MIPS "Nervada" R5200 CPU, 64MB EDO RAM, and 10GB IBM IDE HDD internal. It has one PCI slot, attached to a Galileo PCI controller. When first bought, it had a Lucent Winmodem installed (Gateway branded). All I've done is simply replaced the modem with this SCSI card. The box is running Debian 3.0 with Linux Kernel 2.4.24-pre2 (from linux-mips CVS).
If I fire the box up, then run 'modprobe atp870u' -- with no devices attached (or switched off), the driver loads, no worries. However, if I try doing the same with a device attached (and switched on), I get SCSI timeout errors, and the driver initialisation stalls. -- I have to reboot to unload the driver. (See attachment)
The device in question is the tower of hard drives I mentioned above (has 3x 18.2GB and 1x 9.1GB HDDs). I know from previous testing that neither the tower, the cable nor the terminator are at fault -- they work just fine on both an SGI Indy and my main machine (with an Advansys SCSI card) without any hassles. I have also tried plugging in an external tape drive, and got the same results.
The only thing that I haven't tested is whether the card works (it was sold second hand with a CDRW burner -- I presumed it did, and from the tests tonight, there's at least a little bit of life), and what its compatability is with Linux (in particular Linux/MIPS). I've also tried an Advansys SCSI card (the one in my main box) in the same machine with no joy (it didn't work _at all_ -- so the ACARD host is currently doing better right now)
I'm not able to hack the driver myself, as I'm a newbie when it comes to kernel hacking. (Otherwise I'd be looking into it right now...unfortunately I'm a C newbie, and therefore the code is right over my head.) I might also later try the Linux-MIPS crew if this turns out to be a MIPS-specific thing (I can't rule that one out).
Any assistance would be appreciated, - -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Stuart Longland stuartl at longlandclan.hopto.org | | Brisbane Mesh Node: 719 http://stuartl.cjb.net/ | | I haven't lost my mind - it's backed up on a tape somewhere | | Atomic Linux Project <---> http://atomicl.berlios.de/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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