On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 4:50:01PM -0500, Carl E. Hartung wrote:
the first step here is to isolate the exact cause of your SCSI adapter problem. You may have to update the controller bios... or pass some parameters to the module before it loads... or, or, or. It's all conjecture at this point. If you'd like, get some of this research done and holler back.
Having installed the kernel 2.6.8 sources and docs from the 9.2 CDs, I've tried giving parameters to the sym53c8xx module during the 9.2 installation when linuxrc asks for such parameters. Specifically, I've tried to give these: mpar:n spar:n verb:2 debug:0x200 as discussed in section 10.2 of /usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24/Documentation/scsi/sym53c8xx_2.txt. I've tried the form above, as well as mpar=n spar=n... and both forms give the message: sym53c8xx: Unknown parameter `mpar' in /var/log/boot.msg. How can I give the scsi driver some parameters? TIA, Jim