Subj : 2.6 in not "stable" sym53c8xx drivers are broken
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Pksings
Date : Thu Jul 29 2004 07:13 pm

The sym53c8xx drivers are and have been broken in kernel 2.6 for quite
some time. And nobody who is capable seems motivated to fix them. It will
not initialize my Yamaha CDburner at all, it in fact locks up the scsi
buss after it fails to initialize the burner. It works fine in 2.4.

There is a month old post that describes the situation perfectly. Asking
if the delay or initialization time could be increased. There is a more
recent post that states that it started after version "i".


the behaviour is this, load modules, buss is scanned, the following is the
results.
  Vendor: YAMAHA    Model: CRW8824S          Rev: 1.00
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
scsi(2:0:4:0): Beginning Domain sym1:4:0: ABORT operation timed-out.
sym1:4:0: DEVICE RESET operation started.
sym1:4:0: DEVICE RESET operation timed-out.
sym1:4:0: BUS RESET operation started.
sym1: SCSI BUS reset detected.
sym1: SCSI BUS has been reset.
sym1:4:0: BUS RESET operation complete.
sym1:4:0: ABORT operation started.
sym1:4:0: ABORT operation timed-out.
sym1:4:0: HOST RESET operation started.
sym1: SCSI BUS has been reset.
sym1:4:0: ABORT operation started.

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