Good news for the Initio Miles owners

Good news for the Initio Miles owners

[laures]

Hi,

I managed to get the ini9100UW somehow to work.
My system is a 8600/250 with an SCSI and an Ultra SCSI disks on the PCI
card.

I can partition, format, copy/erase stuff -> no problem so far, although
I'll do some deeper tests (any advice on extensive tests, benchmarking
etc ?)

I'm releasing here the (trivial) patch for those who wants to test it as
well (UW disks would be cool).

--- linux-2.2.6/drivers/scsi/i91uscsi.h	Sun May 23 00:14:06 1999
+++ linux/drivers/scsi/i91uscsi.h	Sun May 23 18:22:34 1999
@@ -649,7 +649,7 @@
 	UCHAR NVM_TargFConfig;	/* 1Fh -> Target F configuration */
 } NVRAM_SCSI;
 
-typedef struct _NVRAM {
+typedef struct _ini_NVRAM {
 /*----------header ---------------*/
 	USHORT NVM_Signature;	/* 0,1: Signature */
 	UCHAR NVM_Size;		/* 2:   Size of data structure */
@@ -667,7 +667,7 @@
 	UCHAR NVM_reserved[10];
 	/* ---------- CheckSum ----------       */
 	USHORT NVM_CheckSum;	/* 0x3E, 0x3F: Checksum of NVRam        */
-} NVRAM, *PNVRAM;
+} ini_NVRAM, *PNVRAM;
 
 /* Bios Configuration for nvram->BIOSConfig1                            */
 #define NBC1_ENABLE             0x01	/* BIOS enable                  */
--- linux-2.2.6/drivers/scsi/i91uscsi.c	Sun May 23 00:14:06 1999
+++ linux/drivers/scsi/i91uscsi.c	Sun May 23 18:22:34 1999
@@ -156,8 +156,8 @@
 static INI_ADPT_STRUCT i91u_adpt[MAX_SUPPORTED_ADAPTERS];
 
 /*NVRAM nvram, *nvramp = &nvram; */
-static NVRAM i91unvram;
-static NVRAM *i91unvramp;
+static ini_NVRAM i91unvram;
+static ini_NVRAM *i91unvramp;
 
 
My advice is to keep it as a module, and then do as root "insmod
/lib/module/2.2.6/scsi/initio.o".
If not, the order of the HDs will change (sda, sdb etc...) and the
system may not boot at all.

Give me feedback !


-- 
Guillaume Laurès - student @ ESIEA (www.esiea.fr)


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Re: Good news for the Initio Miles owners

[Tom Rini]

On Sun, 23 May 1999 laures@esiea.fr wrote:

> I can partition, format, copy/erase stuff -> no problem so far, although
> I'll do some deeper tests (any advice on extensive tests, benchmarking
> etc ?)

10 large copy/erase/repeats at a time for an hour or so,  then force an
fsck?

> My advice is to keep it as a module, and then do as root "insmod
> /lib/module/2.2.6/scsi/initio.o".
> If not, the order of the HDs will change (sda, sdb etc...) and the
> system may not boot at all

That's just due to the search order.  For some odd reason, we go by
what's attached to what (inito before, mesh, before nc53c94(?)).  But if
the driver becomes useable and stable, just change your /etc/fstab to
reflect the new order. :)
 
---
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/


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