TMC-18C30

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 11:53 -0600, Gene Losey wrote:
> I rmmod both the st and fdomain modules.  Then I did a modprobe on st then
> fdomain.
> Here are the entries in /var/log/messages
> ======== < start of SNIPPIT > =====
> Dec 21 11:40:38 dev kernel: st: Version 20040403, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g
> segs 256
> Dec 21 11:40:42 dev kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 21
> (level, low) -> IRQ 209
> Dec 21 11:40:44 dev kernel: scsi3: <fdomain> No BIOS; using scsi id 7
> Dec 21 11:40:44 dev kernel: scsi3: <fdomain> TMC-36C70 (PCI bus) chip at
> 0xbc00 irq 209
> Dec 21 11:40:44 dev kernel: scsi3 : Future Domain 16-bit SCSI Driver Version
> 5.51
> Dec 21 11:40:44 dev kernel: Badness in fdomain_select at
> drivers/scsi/fdomain.c:1083
> Dec 21 11:40:44 dev kernel:  [<41c17a16>] fdomain_select+0x78/0xc3 [fdomain]
> Dec 21 11:40:44 dev kernel:  [<41c17bb1>] do_fdomain_16x0_intr+0xd9/0x4f0
> [fdomain]
> Dec 21 11:40:44 dev kernel:  [<0222d43d>] ide_intr+0x112/0x11e
> Dec 21 11:40:44 dev kernel:  [<02237d10>] cdrom_pc_intr+0x0/0x1f8
> Dec 21 11:40:44 dev kernel:  [<0210764a>] handle_IRQ_event+0x25/0x4f
> Dec 21 11:40:44 dev kernel:  [<02107ba1>] do_IRQ+0x11c/0x1ae
> Dec 21 11:40:45 dev kernel:  =======================
> Dec 21 11:40:45 dev kernel:  [<02104018>] default_idle+0x0/0x2c
> Dec 21 11:40:45 dev kernel:  [<02104041>] default_idle+0x29/0x2c
> Dec 21 11:40:45 dev kernel:  [<0210409d>] cpu_idle+0x26/0x3b
> Dec 21 11:40:45 dev kernel:  [<02375784>] start_kernel+0x194/0x198
> Dec 21 11:40:46 dev kernel:   Vendor: SONY      Model: SDT-9000
> Rev: 125F
> Dec 21 11:40:46 dev kernel:   Type:   Sequential-Access
> ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Dec 21 11:40:46 dev kernel: Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi3, channel 0, id
> 6, lun 0
> Dec 21 11:40:46 dev kernel: st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B), max
> page reachable by HBA 1048575
> Dec 21 11:40:46 dev scsi.agent[4185]: tape at
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:01:00.0/host3/3:0:6:0
> = ===== < end of snippit > =======
> It looks like that did the trick.  DO I just ned to put the modprobe
> commands in /etc/rc.d/rc.local or shpuld the system automatically load the
> modules and detect the devices?

Put the following line in /etc/modprobe.conf :

alias scsi_hostadapter fdomain

That should take care of getting the SCSI controller recognised at boot
time. I don't know if kudzu will then recognise the tape drive or not.
Give it a try. If it doesn't, add "modprobe st" to /etc/rc.d/rc.local.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>