Pioneer SCSI Adapter TMC-850MER
George
: Can any developer tell me if the code in ~/linux/drivers/scsi/seagate.c
: will support this card? The board has a TMC-950 chip on it, but the
: kernel cannot find it. Does the TMC-950 referenced in the comments
: in the code refer to a *board* or the *chip*?
: This model of the board does _not_ have a BIOS chip on it, does the
: driver need one? If this driver does not work, does anyone have a
: (pre) alpha driver that I can try?
Please let me know if you get your board to work. I'm fighting with
a Future Domain 850 ( TMC 850) with a BIOS of "IBM F1 BIOS V1.1". I've
patched seagate.c for this and now my board and drive are reconized, but
I get timed out when the partition check takes place and it hangs. I'm
not using an IRQ ( nothing is jumped ) ,so I think. When I tried IRQ 5
It took out one of my IDE drives that linux was on and messed up my
powerup settings. I did so much to the linux partition, that I had to
reload the disk.
Good Luck !
Benjamin Ryzman
>Can any developer tell me if the code in ~/linux/drivers/scsi/seagate.c
>will support this card? The board has a TMC-950 chip on it, but the
>kernel cannot find it. Does the TMC-950 referenced in the comments
>in the code refer to a *board* or the *chip*?
>This model of the board does _not_ have a BIOS chip on it, does the
>driver need one? If this driver does not work, does anyone have a
>(pre) alpha driver that I can try?
The driver needs the BIOS in order to autodetect your card at boot
time.
I use a TMC850 here (w/o BIOS) and I put the following line in Lilo
in order for the card to be detected:
append = "tmc8xx=0xCA000,5"
Where 0xCA000 (IO memory location) and 5 (IRQ) depend on your
jumpers settings (see the card for details).
Note: it's all in the driver sources! :-)
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