[ES40-developers] sym810 questions

[Brian W. <bdw...@in...>]

I tried booting gentoo using the 810 chipset and removing all of the ide
devices (which was hanging it) and it got much farther into the boot
process.

It looks like there are timeout issues with the devices, since linux
offlines all of the devices after walking through them:

sym0: <810> rev 0x1 at pci 0000:00:03.0 irq 32
sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-10, SE, parity checking
sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
scsi0 : sym-2.2.3
scsi 0:0:0:0: ABORT operation started.
scsi 0:0:0:0: ABORT operation timed-out.
scsi 0:0:0:0: DEVICE RESET operation started.
scsi 0:0:0:0: DEVICE RESET operation timed-out.
scsi 0:0:0:0: BUS RESET operation started.
scsi 0:0:0:0: BUS RESET operation timed-out.
scsi 0:0:0:0: HOST RESET operation started.
sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.


It may also have something to do with these addresses:
0x4b (write)
0x17, 0x52, 0x59 (read)

I put dummy stubs in for them and that's the only reason it got that
far :)

Camiel, do any of these show up on your datasheet?  They are not on
mine:

SYM53C810A
 PCI-SCSI I/O Processor
Data Manual
Version 2.0

T07962I

I'll probably take a look at the driver source and see what I can come
up with.


Just as an FYI, having more than one '810 device in the system works
fine :)

Brian