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modprobe initio FATAL Error

Asked by Paul Ed

I am running Edgy 6.10.

I have installed a pci scsi card in order to run a DAT drive for backup purposes. It is distributed by MRi (cheap and cheerful brand) and is seen at boot as an Initio card INI-A100U2W and the manuals quote CI-2500U2 all the time.

The SCSI card appears in the device manager listed as INI-A100U2W but the device type is listed as unknown and the capabilities are unknown. Thus my DAT drive (Python 06408-XXX) is not being spotted. All devices are spotted at the hardware boot in the bios so I am sure everything is installed ok.

If I run lsmod and no scsi modules are loaded, I was expecting to see things like initio, scsi_mod, st . So I have tried the following

root@maenew:/# modprobe initio
FATAL: Error inserting initio (/lib/modules/2.6.17-10-386/kernel/drivers/scsi/initio.ko): No such device
root@maenew:/#

I used to have an adaptec card but I have had to change it because of the new tape drive, for that I used to modprobe aic7xxx and then everything worked. I have seen that under Fedora Core 6 there is a module called a100u2w which would seem to match my card better, but this doesn't seem to be in the Edgy kernel 2.6.17-10-386 that I am using.

Can anyone tell me if my scsi card is supported by Edgy and if so how to get it working. The card is definately being seen by Edgy as its in device manager with the correct manufacturer, model number etc, but like I said it doesn't know what type of device it is.

At the moment I am backing up via ftp to another machine but I would like an offsite backup aswell.

Than you in advance for any help.

Paul

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#1

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285005 indicates that the module should be a100u2w, not initio.

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#2

I have created a bug and linked it to this request.

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Paul Ed (paul-mae-systems) said : 		#3

I have changed pci.lst and this has made no difference.

I see you have now also created a bug because a100u2w is not loaded in the kernel.

Is there a way I can compile it into the kernel myself ???

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#4

Yes, of course you can. The following page details the kernel compilation process. I'd recommend that you read it thoroughly first. If you get any problems I'd recommend you open a new ticket.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelCustomBuild

The important thing you will need to do is switch on support for your SCSI device before the actual compiling takes place.

To confirm you have switched on, you can check the existence of the following line in the .config file in the directory where your kernel source is unpacked.

CONFIG_SCSI_INIA100=m

If it contains this line - then you won't get the module compiled.

# CONFIG_SCSI_INIA100 is not set

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