I am trying to put a Cyclone SCSI PMC (symbios 53c895 chipset) card on my Motorola MVME2400 and I see some wierd stuff. If I put the SCSI card on a SPAN card, the kernel comes up and see the card, but when I place the SCSI card on either of the 2 PMC slots on the base, I hang while probing PCI hardware. It gets part way through the PCI fixup resources section and just hangs. Here is my boot Linux/PPC load: console=ttyS0,9600 root=/dev/ram0 Uncompressing Linux...done. Now booting the kernel Total memory = 128MB; using 512kB for hash table (at c0200000) Linux version 2.4.3 (bwaite at chicory.cspi.com) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010111 (pre1PReP architecture On node 0 totalpages: 32768 zone(0): 32768 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,9600 root=/dev/ram0 OpenPIC Version 1.3 (2 CPUs and 16 IRQ sources) at fc000000 OpenPIC timer frequency is 12.500243 MHz time_init: decrementer frequency = 24.999930 MHz Calibrating delay loop... 699.59 BogoMIPS Memory: 125080k available (984k kernel code, 496k data, 88k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: Probing PCI hardware Fixup mem res, dev: 0.0, res_start: 3c000000->fc000000 Fixup mem res, dev: 0.d, res_start: 2ff7f000->eff7f000 Fixup mem res, dev: 0.e, res_start: 2ff7ec00->eff7ec00 Fixup mem res, dev: 0.e, res_start: fffc0000->bffc0000
A thing to note is that I do not have and SCSI support built into this kernel. I built scsi_mod, sd_md, and sym53c8xx and load them as modules. I am using the 2.4.3 kernel and I have tried building the sym module into the driver, but the hangs occurs before the driver ever loads! Any idea what has gone wrong while tring to probe this card? It is strage that it works fine on a SPAN card. Too bad that is not a solution for us. PS this worked under 2.2 so I know the card is OK. Thanks Any help would be great thanks. Brian -- Brian Waite Looking for a TeraFLOP in a closet www.fastcluster.com ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
