Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Apr 1998 23:42:54 +0100 (GMT+0100) | From | Shaw Carruthers <> | Subject | Re: MCA in or out? |
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It looks as if the 3c529 support in 2.1.92 is missing the detection code, as you say. The ethernet howto says that there is a workaround for this which basically involves replacing the missing routines with constants found by other means.
But the SCSI detection code is also broken.
I have installed a base Linux system on my machine using kernel 2.0.7, booting this gives:
IBM MCA SCSI: forced detection, scsi id=7. PPA: unable to initialise controller at 0x378, error 1 scsi0 : IBMMCA scsi : 1 host. Vendor: MICROP Model: 4110-09NB_Nov18b Rev: TN0F Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk total. SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2047736 [999 MB] [1.0 GB] 3c529/509: Found 3Com 3c529 Etherlink III (10baseslot2 at slot 2 eth0: 3c509 at 0x200 tag 0, BNC port, address 00 20 af fc 41 52, IRQ 3. 3c509.c:1.07 6/15/95 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Adding Swap: 66556k swap-space
However 2.1.92 has an ioport parameter for scsi which it sets to 7 also, this causes the scsi initialisation to fail, because it can't reserve i/o region 0x7-0xf!
So some basic patches are needed.
-- Shaw Carruthers - shaw@shawc.demon.co.uk London SW14 7JW UK This is not a sig( with homage to Magritte).
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