Re: NCR SCSI PowerUP driver

[Rene B. <re...@we...>]

Hi, Fred!

Nice to here that your Amiga is working again! I`m working on the 53c770 
driver and I got some successes.
I have reworked the driver to the newer ncr53c8xx version and got the 
cachetest and the irq-assignment working. Also the scripts are patched to 
get the LED working and 4k on-chip RAM is used.
If no scsi-device is on the bus, the kernel starts and you can read out 
some information in /proc/scsi/53c770. But if a device is connected to 
scsi, the scripts-part of the driver detects the scsi-device and then it 
hangs at some point after detection. It`s realy difficult to get out where 
the problem is...
Before I reworked the driver to the newer one, I have worked on your 
version and got the same problem!

The newer ncr53c8xx driver uses some 'mad' memory-management routines, 
which is not corrected for APUS for now. I have only done some 'dirty' 
hacks on memory-management for APUS, because I don`t want to waste my time 
on this.

If you are interested, i could send you my version for testing. It also 
were be nice, if you have the time for also working on the driver.
Since I had a crash on my APUS-box lately, I must rework some stuff on an 
older version of the driver... I need a few days.
The cvs contains only your old version.


Ciao, Renè

On 2001.12.04 16:35 F. Heitkamp wrote:
> I finally got my Amiga repaired and working though I lost my Ariadne 
> card.
> Something is wrong with it that causes the Amiga to lose contact with the
> Zorro slots.  It would be nice to get the Ariadne fixed, but I understand
> Village Tronic or whoever is no longer in business.
> 
> Anyway,  I may try to work on the SCSI driver again if no one else
> is working on it.  If someone else has be working on it, have you had
> any luck?
> 
> Fred
> 
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