As Gerard Roudier is on vacation till Monday August 18, I forward
you his README.
The question is whether you want to include version 1.18i or 2.3c
or even 2.4. ( Current linux-2.0.31-pre5 has version 1.12c from
30 August 1996).
Robert
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ftp://linux.wauug.org/pub/roudier/README Last update 27 July 1997.
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ftp://linux.wauug.org/pub/roudier
This location is the primary one for the linux NCR53C8XX driver updates
and miscellaneous materials as Slackware abd RedHat boot images.
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NEWS
Latest available driver version is 2.4.
I will take a vacation from August 1rst to August 18. I will not read my
email during this period.
Global patch 'ncr53c8xx-1.18i-to-2.3c-for-linux-pre-2.0.31-2.patch.gz'
is available.
It can be used against a 2.0.30 kernel patched with
pre-patch-2.0.31-2.gz.
Since no problem has been reported with driver 2.3 series, I recommend
to use version 2.3c or latest 2.4 under linux-2.0.27/28/29/30.
Global patch 'ncr53c8xx-1.12d-to-2.3a-for-linux-2.0.29.patch.gz' available.
It can be used against unpatched linux-2.0.29 or 2.0.30 kernel.
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The initial revision has been a port from the FreeBSD NCR53C8XX driver.
The driver has been incorporated into the linux official source tree in
June 1996 for linux-2.0.3.
The original driver for FreeBSD has been written for 386bsd and FreeBSD by
Wolfgang Stanglmeier <wolf@cologne.de>
Stefan Esser <se@mi.Uni-Koeln.de>
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The previous stable driver version is: 1.18i.
The current pretty stable driver version is: 2.3c.
The latest driver version is: 2.4.
Both support the whole 53C8XX family.
Tagged Command Queuing and Fast Synchronous Data Transfer are supported
with all 53C8XX chips.
Other features depend on the involved PCI and SCSI subsystem and so are
supported and enabled only when all needed conditions are met.
For example, the following features of 53C875 SCSI controllers are
supported by the driver:
- Wide 16 data transfer.
- Fast-20 (a.k.a. ULTRA SCSI) synchronous data transfer.
- Synchronous offset 16.
- Large bursting up to 128 dwords and 536 bytes DMA fifo.
- 'On-board RAM' for script instructions.
- Optimized PCI bus commands.
- Script instruction Prefetching.
- Read user setup from NvRAM (version 2.2 and above).
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Patches for linux-2.0.29 and 2.0.30 are:
ncr53c8xx-1.12d-to-2.3a-for-linux-2.0.29.patch.gz
ncr53c8xx-2.3a-to-2.3b.patch.gz
ncr53c8xx-2.3b-to-2.3c.patch.gz
ncr53c8xx-2.3c-to-2.4.patch.gz
If you need to use the driver under linux-2.0.27 apply first the patch
'ncr53c8xx-12c-to-12d-for-2.0.27.patch.gz' and then the above ones.
For pre-linux-2.0.31-2 and the future linux-2.0.31, you can use patches:
ncr53c8xx-1.18i-to-2.3c-for-linux-pre-2.0.31-2.patch.gz
ncr53c8xx-2.3c-to-2.4.patch.gz
NvRAMs of Symbios compatible and Tekram DC-390/U/F/W boards are supported.
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Patches for using driver version 2.3c under Linux-1.2.13 are not currently
available. If you want such a patch to be made available, mail me.
For now, you can install version 1.18i using the following materials:
For linux-1.2.13, you must install first the following package:
ncrBsd2Linux-1.18c-src.tar.gz
And apply all other necessary patches to the kernel source tree:
ncr53c8xx-1.18c-to-1.18d.patch.gz
ncr53c8xx-1.18d-to-1.18e.patch.gz
ncr53c8xx-1.18e-to-1.18f.patch.gz
ncr53c8xx-1.18f-to-1.18g.patch.gz
ncr53c8xx-1.18g-to-1.18h.patch.gz
ncr53c8xx-1.18h-to-1.18i.patch.gz
Let me know if this driver version works under 1.2.13 since I have'nt tried
it yet.
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A slackware compatible bootkernel disk image is supplied as a gzipped
tar-file:
slack-boot-53c8xx-1.18h.tar.gz
and as an individual file:
slack-boot-53c8xx-1.18h/boot-ncr53c8xx-1.18h
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RedHat Linux 4.1 and 4.2 installation diskette images using driver version
1.18i are available in the following directories:
redhatboot/4.1
redhatboot/4.2
They have been prepared by Eduardo Casino-Almao <eduardo@medusa.es>
Mail directly Eduardo for problems and questions about.
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For the Diamond FIREPORT 40 board, upgrade to driver version 1.18i or 2.3c/2.4.
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I am currently using driver version 2.4 under linux-2.0.29, and it works
fine for me.
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Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>i