Re: SCSI Initio 9100UW (INIC-950p chipset) support nunder kernel 2.6.x

From: Pozsar Balazs
Date: Wed Sep 22 2004 - 15:23:27 EST


On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 05:06:51PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 01:03:00PM -0300, Rodrigo Severo wrote:
> > with kernel 2.4.24 (yes, I know it's old).
> >
> > I want to update my kernel do 2.6.8. The question: is there support for
> > this board/chipset under kernel 2.6.x?
> >
> > I looked around a lot and couldn't find much. www.initio.com says their
> > code is in the kernel since 2.0.32. Has it been left out for 2.6.x?
> >
> > Is anyone working on this port? Anyone intending to work on it?
>
> The driver still exists and actually compiles. It's marked BROKEN, although
> I don't know why. If you want to help testing we can update it to current
> standards.

It works perfectly for me. (I have 1 disk and 1 cdrom.)

Also note that mandrake ships a kernel with the BROKEN flag patched off.

I do not know why was it marked as such.


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