On Thu, 23 Jul 2015, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> if I understand Finn right, he needs the SCSI host ID reported for the
> Falcon SCSI chip, as found in this kernel log line:
What I'd really like is a regression test for this patch series. The SCSI
host ID issue is a separate one; these patches won't fix that bug.
>
> scsi host0: Atari native SCSI, io_port 0x0, n_io_port 0, base 0x0, irq
> 15, can_queue 8, cmd_per_lun 1, sg_tablesize 0, this_id 7, flags { },
> options { REAL_DMA SUPPORT_TAGS }
>
> (see this_id; output from one of my ARAnyM instances, kernel 3.19rc6).
> Also, the SCSI host ID reported by cat /proc/drivers/nvram (also 7, in
> my case)
This seems inconclusive to me. Perhaps if you were to change a setting in
TOS such that the two values became unequal...
>
> TOS reports the SCSI host ID during boot (when scannig for bootable
> disks) IIRC. There may be some control panel to view the NVRAM settings
> as well (stuff like default video mode was accessible from the CT60
> control panel so the SCSI host ID might be there as well).
Can that be done in Aranym also?
--
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 2:32 AM, Christian T. Steigies <c...@debian.org>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 02:22:21PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, 22 Jul 2015, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi Finn,
> >> >
> >> > I'm afraid I cannot test anything on Atari hardware at present - my
> >> > Falcon ate it's IDE disk partition table with all the fun that entails.
> >>
> >> That doesn't sound good.
> >>
> >> > Haven't even begun to try and recover that yet.
> >> >
> >> > If you send a patch I could build a kernel and send that to Christian
> >> > for testing (if he's got his Falcon up and running - might be a tad warm
> >> > in the attic for that, in fact).
> >>
> >> Anyone with a suitable Atari, i.e. ATARIHW_PRESENT(TT_CLK), who can boot
> >> both TOS and Linux could resolve the question. (Perhaps with an emulator?)
> >
> > The Falcon is not powered on currently but it should still work. What should
> > I test?
> >
> >> Any old kernel binary would do, since atari_scsi should print either
> >> "HOSTID=n" or "this_id n" at startup.
> >>
> >> If n doesn't agree with what TOS says about the host's SCSI ID, then I
> >> think a trivial patch is safe enough. Especially if cat /proc/driver/nvram
> >> produces a "SCSI host ID : m" that does agree with TOS.
> >
> > Christian
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