Hi,
I wrote to this list because I have made the combination in the subject work,
would like the patch to be integrated into the "official" kernel and was unable
to find out who maintains the driver. I don't read this list, please reply by
mail.
I had a hard time getting the "seagate" driver in the current Redhat 6.2 kernel
(2.2.14) to work with the Future Domain TMC-850 in an IBM Thinkpad Docking
Station I. The change is so simple that it was not worth creating a patch file.
I had to add the following line to the "signatures" in drivers/scsi/seagate.c:
{"IBM F1 V1.2009/22/93", 5, 25, FD}
Then the driver can be loaded using "modprobe seagate controller_type=2
base_address=0xca000 irq=11". These are the default values (which are different
from the default values of the usual FD controllers), some other values can be
set with jumpers inside of the docking station.
As the command line for use as a module seems to be undocumented and the driver
seems not to do any validity checking of the parameters, it could be a good
idea to add it to the comments in the driver.
I found the fact that I had to use the "seagate" driver for the docking station
on the internet on a private homepage. The instructions on that page were
unusable because they were very incomplete and partly wrong. I found out the
exact ID string with DOS "debug" and some of the missing details were in the
(unmaintened) Linux SCSI HOWTO. The hardware adress and IRQ were on an IBM web
page. And the syntax the parameters have to be written for loading as a module
in the RedHad docs.
If you decide to include this and think that this was worth to go into the
credits (ok, it wasn't that much ;-)), please add "Matthias Heidbrink
([EMAIL PROTECTED])".
And if ever someone asks you what he can do for Linux: I think that it is
important that the SCSI HOWTO gets maintained again.
Ciao, Matthias
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Ciao, Matthias
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