sym/ncr drivers in 2.3.99-pre3 use the Dynamic Dma Mapping (since pre1),
but the drivers in 2.3.47-51 use virt_to_bus() instead.
IIRC, 2.3.4X kernels were involved in the support of the Dynamic Dma
mapping. This let me suggest to look for the cause of the problem in that
feature addition.
If 2.3.46 worked for you both (Btw, it is _important_ to know the latest
kernel that worked for bug tracking), then 2.3.47 diffs should be
inspected, in my opinion.
Gérard.
PS: I cannot reasonnably help for Alpha problems (even if it happened in
the past that I have been fortunate looking into the source) for the
reason I donnot have access to such hardware.
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Clifford Wolf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > With the most recent kernels (I think 2.3.47-2.3.50), I keep getting
> > an infinite loop in the SCSI initialization phase. lspci returns this
> > for the controller:
> >
> > 01:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Symbios Logic Inc. (formerly
> > NCR) 53c895 (rev 02)
> >
> > My system is an ES40 (Quad 500MHz 21264 Alphas, tsunami chipset).
> > Here is the error I'm getting while booting up:
> >
> > sym53c8xx_reset: pid=0 reset_flags=2 serial_number=2 serial_number_at_timeout=2
> > sym53c895-0: resetting, command processing suspended for 2 seconds
> > sym53c895-0: command processing resumed
> > SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting
> > SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
> >
> > ....
>
> Same problem here: ruffian board, single-cpu, linux-2.3.99pre3
>
> I tried the sym53c8xx and the ncr53c8xx driver with various compile time
> options set and unset with no success.
>
> There is no (scsi related) problems with linux-2.3.34 ....
>
> I've found nothing on l-k and I'm not subscribed on linux-alpha. Is there
> allready any bugfix or workarround?
>
> yours,
> - clifford
>
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