Hello there!
I have an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ with the INI 9400u SCSI card. On this card there is only one device attached, a HP DLT4000 tape unit (2 HP DDS-3 tape units are supposed to be added later). In my /var/log/messages file I keep seeing these entries:
Feb 21 12:56:41 imhotep kernel: sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled Feb 21 12:56:41 imhotep kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Feb 21 12:56:43 imhotep kernel: sddr09: could not read card info Feb 21 12:56:43 imhotep kernel: sddr09: could not read card info Feb 21 12:56:43 imhotep kernel: sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled Feb 21 12:56:43 imhotep kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Feb 21 12:56:45 imhotep kernel: sddr09: could not read card info Feb 21 12:56:45 imhotep kernel: sddr09: could not read card info Feb 21 12:56:45 imhotep kernel: sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled Feb 21 12:56:45 imhotep kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Feb 21 12:56:47 imhotep kernel: sddr09: could not read card info Feb 21 12:56:47 imhotep kernel: sddr09: could not read card info Feb 21 12:56:47 imhotep kernel: sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled Feb 21 12:56:47 imhotep kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Feb 21 12:56:49 imhotep kernel: sddr09: could not read card info Feb 21 12:56:49 imhotep kernel: sddr09: could not read card info Feb 21 12:56:49 imhotep kernel: sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled Feb 21 12:56:49 imhotep kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Feb 21 12:56:51 imhotep kernel: sddr09: could not read card info Feb 21 12:56:51 imhotep kernel: sddr09: could not read card info
An sda entry would mean there is a SCSI drive attached, but there is none. What is meant with sddr09 I have no idea! When I go into the BIOS of the card, it only sees the DLT drive.
The tape-unit works fine (I can backup and restore without faults), but the system keeps logging the above stated entries all the time the box is up. This means messages files polluted with these entries, an impact on the performance of the system and when I go to a text-only console the messages start to appear there, so there is no way I can do anything properly in the console.
The BIOS version of the card is 1.08 and I have tried the loadbios util to upgrade it to 1.15 with a bootable DOS floppy, with booting Win2K in DOS mode and from a DOS window in Win2K, but each time the util says there is no INI card on the pci bus.....
I have written to the tech help at Initio, but basicly they just say 'it's a discontinued product, not tested under newer OS's, but it should work'. They also said I should load the driver (which seems to be standard in de FC3 distro) for each channel (there are 4 on the card), but how can I do this??
Thanks in advance for your help.
Kind regards, Angelo
