I found the bus error, the trivial fix is below. I don't know if this patch will work for others quite yet, since my kernel has had some work done to slow interrupt handling. I intend to post that patch soon.
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Brad Boyer wrote: > I notice it got through all the device identify stuff. It dies as soon > as it actually tries to tranfer a real block of data (the partition map) > and do something useful with it. Could you see if disabling PDMA helps? I tested both: my Daystar Mac II now works great with or without PDMA, so hopefully the IIfx will work too. Kenn, my macs like your patch :-) Did it make it upstream? -f Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- a/drivers/scsi/mac_scsi.c 2005-03-09 22:21:01.369397570 +1100 +++ b/drivers/scsi/mac_scsi.c 2005-03-09 22:02:12.594082086 +1100 @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ int macscsi_detect(Scsi_Host_Template * if (instance->irq != SCSI_IRQ_NONE) if (request_irq(instance->irq, NCR5380_intr, IRQ_FLG_SLOW, - "ncr5380", NCR5380_intr)) { + "ncr5380", instance)) { printk(KERN_WARNING "scsi%d: IRQ%d not free, interrupts disabled\n", instance->host_no, instance->irq); instance->irq = SCSI_IRQ_NONE; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html