From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Schmitt Subject: Re: Interest in a driver for PCMCIA Bus toaster (New Media) with advansys chip set? Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:12:07 +0200 Message-ID: <201008240912.08096.development.stefan@alice.de> References: <201008141934.05664.development.stefan@alice.de> <20100815131722.GA11666@gherkin.frus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp-out03.alice-dsl.net ([88.44.63.5]:48061 "EHLO smtp-out03.alice-dsl.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751710Ab0HXIMg (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:12:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100815131722.GA11666@gherkin.frus.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Bob Tracy Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > In case someone is interested: the code is available here: http://www.alice-dsl.net/development.stefan/bustoaster2_cs/bustoaster2_cs.tgz Stefan