Re: DAC960 + sym53c8xx conflict

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>]

On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 10:53:07PM -0500, Michael wrote:
> I've got a 4-processor Intel SC450NX-based system with motherboard
> Sym53c896 dual controller driven a Mylex Acceleraid 200. The motherboard
> also has a sym53c810a which drives a Sony SDT-9000 tape drive. This
> combo has always worked well until I tried updating to a 2.6 kernel.
> 
> When I load 2.6 (tried 2.6. - 2.6.8-rc4 (mm tree too)) every works OK
> until I load the sym53c8xx module. When that module is loaded all access
> to the drives connected to the DAC960 vanishes. I get no errors and the
> system is not locked up. Any attempt to access the disks on the DAC960
> simply hangs.
> 
> Any ideas? I hacked teh sym driver to remove all support for the 896
> chip, but it didn't.

On 2.4, did you get the message:

        printf_info("%s: not initializing, driven by RAID controller.\n",
                                            sym_name(device));

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