Linux Driver for Western Digital WD7197 SCSI card.

[Aaron Dewell]

Well, I've been out of the loop on it for a while.  Others have
been involved much more recently (particularly the two that I've 
CC'd).  What I do know:

The patches are fairly simple, just an addition to the makefile
and Config.in, as well as to include/linux/proc_fs.h (to add
PROC_SCSI_WD719X and related).  The patches were produced on
2.0.1 (?) and 2.1.36, last I recall.  There may have been newer
ones created.  The .c and .h should be fairly universal.
(unless the SCSI interfaces have changed again).

The comment implies that it does not support multiple WD scsi
cards, though I believe Juergen made that work and the comment
may be outdated at this point.

That's my knowledge so far, Shane or Juergen can probably fill
in some more details.

Thanks!

Aaron

Martina Umlauft <e9026329 at stud1.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
 > Hi Aaron!
 > 
 > My brother, who works in tech support for Western Digital received your
 > driver from a customer who told him he uses his 7197 successfully with it
 > under Linux. Even though WD are not going to "officially support" your
 > driver, he is interested in having something he could give to customers,
 > along the lines of "we don't support it but you can try this".
 > 
 > So he wanted to try out the driver and gave it to me (because he has no
 > Linux knowledge). Unfortunately the tar file he was given by the customer
 > didn't contain any information as to for which kernel version this patch
 > was intended (the tar file only contained wd719x.h, .c and a 719x.dif
 > which wouldn't patch out of the box so I made the changes manually) - I
 > currently use 2.0.36 and I could compile your driver but it never detected
 > the 7197.
 > 
 > I had a look around your source and found a lot of comments that the
 > driver doesn't support multiple cards yet so I suspect that it won't work
 > because I use an onboard adaptec 2940UW. The .h file shows WD719X_VERSION
 > "0.05 updated 4-9-96" - do you have a newer version of the driver? Do you
 > still work on it or could you point me to your successor if you don't
 > anymore? Or is there a web page my brother could send his customers to? 
 > 
 > I would be very pleased if you could get in contact with me,
 > 
 > 
 >     Bye,
 >         /|/|artina :)                             tina at penguinpowered.com

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