Re: Interest in a driver for PCMCIA Bus toaster (New Media) with advansys chip set?

[Stefan Schmitt <development.stefan@alice.de>]

On Sunday 15 August 2010 at 15:17:22 Bob Tracy wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 07:34:05PM +0200, Stefan Schmitt wrote:
> > the card is labelled PS: 404-15-02A. As much as I could see, there
> > is no linux driver available.
> >
> >         Product Name:   PCMCIA Bus Toaster SCSI Adapter
> >         Identification: manf_id: 0x10cd card_id: 0x0001
> >                  function: 8 (SCSI)
> >                  prod_id(1): "PCMCIA Bus Toaster" (0x590031a6)
> >                  prod_id(2): "SCSI Adapter" (0x96269fcd)
> >
> > I have an initial version of driver code (for the 2.6 kernel). I could
> > send the code to someone more experienced if there is interest.
> 
> I suspect this will turn out as it did for me when I tried to do
> something similar with the Symbios Logic 53c500 version of the New Media
> Bus Toaster :-).  Since you presumably have access to the card, you're in
> the best position to do further development and testing on the driver.
> 
> Maybe the other one or two people running Linux who have one of these
> beasts will come forward and volunteer to help with the testing, but the
> 53c500 version was supposedly newer (circa 1997), so the odds aren't
> good.  Even so, I'd say please submit the driver.  I wouldn't trade my
> experience with the driver development process for anything: it was fun
> and I learned a lot.
> 
> --Bob
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In case someone is interested: the code is available here:

http://www.alice-dsl.net/development.stefan/bustoaster2_cs/bustoaster2_cs.tgz

Stefan