Re: INITIO scsi driver fails to work properly

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:39:47 +0200 "Filippos Papadopoulos" <psybases@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have got an INITIO 9100 UW SCSI Controller with an IBM
> IC35L036UWD210-0 scsi hard disk on a 32 bit x86 system.
> Currently i have SUSE 10.1 (Kernel 2.6.16).
> 
> 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
> driver
> gets loaded during the installation process, yast reports that no hard
> disk is found. I believe that this isnt a bug in suse's yast but a
> problem
> in the initio scsi driver because i also tried to install Fedora 8
> (kernel 2.6.23) with the same problem.
> I have seen the relevant thread "Conflict when loading initio driver"
> and i suppose that the initio driver isnt fixed yet.
> I can help testing the new patches in the initio driver if someone is
> interested.

initio doesn't seem to have a maintainer...

Are you able to identify any earlier kernel which worked OK?

Maybe it's a new device?  If you can get the `lspci -vvxx' output
for that device we can take a look.