Re: NCR53c8xx driver and multiple controllers...(not new prob)

Mitch Adair
2001-03-26T00:06:40Z

> Here is the 'alternate' output when the ncr53c8xx driver is
> compiled in:
>
> SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
> scsi-ncr53c7,8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 8, function 0
> scsi-ncr53c7,8xx: warning : revision of 35 is greater than 2.
> scsi-ncr53c7,8xx: NCR53c810 at memory 0xfa101000, io 0x2000, irq 58
> scsi0: burst length 16
> scsi0: NCR code relocated to 0x37d6c610 (virt 0xf7d6c610)
> scsi0: test 1 started
> scsi0: NCR53c{7,8}xx (rel 17)
> request_module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted
> VFS: Cannot open root device "807" or 08:07
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:07
> -----

I don't believe that's the ncr53c8xx driver. That looks like the
53c7,8xx driver. I don't think it's really maintained any more, or
frankly that it could ever handle a 53c896 card, which could explain
it only seeing the 810a and not the 896 your boot disk is on.

You really want to use the sym53c8xx driver anyway - it is the one
being worked on in earnest now. I believe it will pick up 810a
controllers as well.

(yes that's three ncr/symbios/lsi drivers in the kernel - "53c7,8xx",
"ncr53c8xx" and "sym53c8xx" ...)

M