> My controller does not seem to be supported by the current driver. > > I have no driver programming skill, so I wonder if you have some > ideas to modify Nigel Roles's driver to support my SCSI controller.
the linux driver you're using weighs in at 32kloc. wow. it appears that linux uses a different driver for your device than linux uses for the devices that sd538xx.c supports. the size of the drivers involved makes it pretty difficult to determine if the current driver could support your card. if you felt like spending some time on the problem, it seems pretty clear that you're getting to cribbios() in sd53c8xxenable but reset is hanging. if you wanted to narrow down the problem further, you could use a binary search with print statements and figure which line is hanging the machine. if i had the documentation and the time, it would be fun to get this sort of part going. i have some similar hardware that's not supported. (check the 9fans archive.) but the problem is i don't have either and the payoff of getting a couple of old, slow, small drives going isn't quite there for me. (actually i have two chassis with hot-swappable raid backplanes and 18gb drives.) you should get better performance out of a $50 ata hard drive these days. - erik
