Re: boot-floppies 2.2.25 with i386 2.2.19 upgrade
From my understanding someone has problems with a Tekram DC390U3W or
similar card. That card has a Symbios 53C1010 chip and is fully
supported by the 2.2.19 linux kernel. The kernel driver version is
1.7.1. I don't think it is supported by the 2.2.13 kernel.
The debian boot discs should have no problems with this card.
If the problem is outside of the debian boot discs, please move the
discussion to linux-scsi at vger.kernel.org to get scsi specific help.
If the user do get the scsi bios message at boot and the boot disk is
reported as a boot device, linux should have no problem at all booting
from that disk, as long as the driver is compiled in or loaded from
initrd.
The problem you can face is hw oriented:
. make sure it is set to 33MHz, 32bit unless you have a motherboard
that supports wider/faster pci
. make sure there are no irq conflicts
. cables and terminations
. no scsi bios banner: reflash the card
. some disks need to be set at a lower transfer speed in the scsi bios
. some motherboard don't do pci master parity,
if so try ncr53c8xx=mpar:n boot line argument
Regards,
/Karl
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From: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>
Subject: Re: boot-floppies 2.2.25 with i386 2.2.19 upgrade
Date: 13 Jun 2001 12:59:22 -0400
> Brian Schramm <bschramm@schramms.yi.org> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 14 May 2001 sharkey@ale.physics.sunysb.edu wrote:
> >
> > > > LSI Logic Symbios pci scsi bios.
> > > >
> > > > I think that is what you are looking for.
> > >
> > > Not really, no. I wanted a chip number.
> > >
> > > www.tekram.com, flip, flip, flip.....
> > >
> > > It's a Symbos 53C1010, which appears to be more or less compatible with the
> > > 53C8xx chips used in the earlier tekram cards. At least, there're references
> > > to them in the 2.4 series kernels' 53c8xx driver sources, so I assume they
> > > work, but there's no mention of them in my copy of the 2.2.13 sources I have
> > > here, so you may require a 2.4 kernel to use this card. You should check
> > > the 2.2.19 sources.
>
> > OK, is there anyone building or has a set of 2.4 kernel disks?
>
> I'm confused. The potato boot floppies includes CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX
> in both the vanilla set and the compact set.
>
> You have to identify what config option is required by your card, then
> grep in the 'kernel-config' files in the b-f area, e.g.,
> <URL:http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/>
>
> There's not really much else I can do for the user.
>
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