Hi Ricky, I understand that on Linux side of things that our good friend Alan Cox could be working with I2O modules to be ported into 2.4.x kernel. How close they are with DPT I2O version is somewhat unknown. Hopefully Alan might be able to shed some light for us on this 1. On the other hand what about upgrading your 1554 controllers to firmware 3013 instead. I have also got the driver running with 2.2.14 kernel without any hassles. Please let me know what issues you might have encounter during your testing stage. Leon At 07:11 AM 8/04/00 +1300, Ricky Beam wrote: >* From the linux-i2o Reflector, posted by: >* Ricky Beam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >* >At first, I was going to ask if anyone had "updated" the DPT provided >driver >for their latest line of I2O based RAID controllers... I thought to >myself, >"hmm, 'modprobe i2o_scsi' ??" Of course that didn't work (2.3.33) but >it was promising -- ^C stopped the spewage of failure messages and shutdown >the RAID card! > >Knowing the driver from DPT is based in 2.2.12(?), I figured this would be >a major pain to slide into 2.3, but it was surprisingly easy :-) > >So, is there an "official" driver in the pipe for the ever-pending 2.4? Is >the I2O base supposed to be able to handle this? Or should I just throw my >quick hackish modifications back at DPT? > >(Basically, it's just filling in the Scsi_Host_Template correctly and cleaning >up all the damned spinlocks -- initialize BEFORE use please. It took about >an hour from patch (most of it installs) to mk2efs.) > >I've got it "working" as a module in 2.3.33 for a SmartRAID V. (Now let's >see if I can crash the controller like the Mylex AccelRAID 150 this thing >replaced.) > >--Ricky > >DPT: Reading the hardware resource table. This could take up to 5 minutes >DPT: Hardware resource table read. >scsi0 : Vendor: DPT Model: PM1554U2 Rev: 211D >scsi : 1 host. > Vendor: DPT Model: RAID-5 Rev: 211D > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 >Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 >SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 71660544 [34990 MB] [35.0 >GB] > sda: sda1 > >(it survived mke2fs... ship it! :-)
