GVP Series II SCSI

[Pieter E. <pi...@ba...>]

Hi there all,

I'm trying to get a Sony SMO-C501 magneto optical drive to work through a
GVP Series II SCSI adapter. Now is there any reason not to trust any of the
standard utilities cfdisk, scsiinfo, mke2fs, badblocks with this setup on
APUS?
It looks fine on boot, i can actually mount it with the correct size,
badblocks -w does execute wonderfully, but problems start with things like
making nested directories on the ext2 filesystem (files are ok), or doing a
scsi inquiry like
scsiinfo -g /dev/sda (see dmesg below).
Can anyone tell me where to start looking with this? I don't have any other
scsi host around and i know this drive is a problem by itself, but to me
this might seem to be having to do with the GVP driver or something...
Or could it be the geometry is wrong (it says 10 heads in cfdisk, which i
know should be 1). Also most of the disks are 1024 bytes/sector in stead of
512. Is that still a problem with the current kernel?

Well, thanks anyway, bye, Pieter Ennes.

Amiga 4000 CSPPC 604
GVP Series II SCSI
Kernel 2.4.13-20001030

-- dmesg at boot --
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
wd33c93-0: chip=WD33c93A/0 no_sync=0xff no_dma=0 debug_flags=0x00
           setup_args=,,,,,,,,,
           Version 1.25 - 09/Jul/1997, Compiled Oct 30 2001 at 21:09:43
scsi0 : GVP Series II SCSI
 sending SDTR -REJ-  Vendor: SONY      Model: SMO-C501-00       Rev: 2.13
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 01
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 314569 1024-byte hdwr sectors (322 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
 sda: sda1
-- dmesg --


Generated by scsiinfo -g /dev/sda:

-- dmesg --
Oops: kernel access of bad area, sig: 11
NIP: C000DCE4 XER: 00000000 LR: C000DD68 SP: C26A3C50 REGS: c26a3ba0 TRAP:
0300    Not tainted
MSR: 00001072 EE: 0 PR: 0 FP: 0 ME: 1 IR/DR: 11
DAR: 0000000C, DSISR: 40000000
TASK = c26a2000[255] 'scsiinfo' Last syscall: 1
last math c26a2000 last altivec 00000000
GPR00: 00000004 C26A3C50 C26A2000 00000000 00000000 C26A3C58 C04FE8A0
C04FE8E4
GPR08: C04F9A58 C026D644 C011AF48 00000000 84000082 1001E1D0 00000000
00000000
GPR16: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00009072 0A6A3F40 000003E8
C0270000
GPR24: 00000000 C04FEA18 C04FE800 C26A3CE8 C04FE800 00000001 00000000
00000000
Call backtrace:
24002002 C011DE20 C011B4C4 C011B0FC C0107868 C011000C C010F3B4
C010F434 C0107AD8 C0107988 C010A548 C010AE7C C012C10C C003E82C
C003E898 C0037B2C C00366B4 C0015B90 C0016448 C0016630 C0003DFC
-- dmesg --