Re: INITIO scsi driver fails to work properly

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 18:44 +0200, Filippos Papadopoulos wrote:
> On Jan 11, 2008 5:44 PM, James Bottomley
> <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I havent reported "initio: I/O port range 0x0 is busy."
> >
> > Sorry ... we appear to have several reporters of different bugs in this
> > thread.  That message was copied by Chuck Ebbert from a Red Hat
> > bugzilla ... I was assuming it was the same problem.
> >
> > > I applied the patch on 2.6.24-rc6-git9 but unfortunatelly same thing happens.
> >
> > First off, has this driver ever worked for you in 2.6?  Just booting
> > SLES9 (2.6.5) or RHEL4 (2.6.9) ... or one of their open equivalents to
> > check a really old kernel would be helpful.  If you can get it to work,
> > then we can proceed with a patch reversion regime based on the
> > assumption that the problem is a recent commit.
> 
> Yes it works under 2.6.16.13.  See the beginning of this thread, i
> mention there some things about newer versions.

Thanks, actually, I see this:

> I tried to install OpenSUSE 10.3 (kernel 2.6.22.5) and the latest
> OpenSUSE 11.0 Alpha 0  (kernel 2.6.24-rc4) but although the initio
> drivergets loaded during the installation process, yast reports that no hard
> disk is found.

Could you try with a vanilla 2.6.22 kernel?  The reason for all of this
is that 2.6.22 predates Alan's conversion of this driver (which was my
95% candidate for the source of the bug).  I want you to try the vanilla
kernel just in case the opensuse one contains a backport.

Thanks,

James