Re: Strange SCSI controller
At Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:39:51 -0500,
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> > I guess there used to be this other QLogic driver you could get (just do a
> > search on google and you will see people being constantly referenced to it).
> > The company/link seems to have gone under though.
>
> I do have copies of their source tree that were rescued shortly after
> they went under (at the time, the source was still available via
> bitkeeper, I don't know if it is now), and I'm happy to give a copy to
> anyone who wants it, but it doesn't really seem necessary since the real
> problems were with the PCI initialization code and not with the
> qlogicisp driver. Even using their module didn't fix the SCSI
> initialization problems I was seeing, and IIRC the code doesn't compile
> cleanly in 2.6 due to kernel API changes.
I presume you mean the feral driver. I've not tried using it since
I switched to 2.6 kernels, but the main reason for my using it was
this note in the standard kernel documentation for the qlogic ISP
driver:
This driver works well in practice, but does not support
disconnect/ reconnect, which makes using it with tape drives
impractical.
The feral driver didn't have this problem, and since both SCSI
boards in my Miata are qlogic, it meant I could finally run a scsi
tape drive. Has anybody looked into adapting this code for 2.6
kernels?
.....Ron
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