WorkBiT NinjaSCSI-3/32Bi driver for Linux 1. Comment This is Workbit corp.'s(http://www.workbit.co.jp/) NinjaSCSI-3 (http://www.workbit.co.jp/ts/z_nj3r.html) and NinjaSCSI-32Bi (http://www.workbit.co.jp/ts/z_njsc32bi.html) PCMCIA card driver module for Linux. 2. My Linux environment Linux kernel: 2.4.7 / 2.2.19 pcmcia-cs: 3.1.27 gcc: gcc-2.95.4 PC card: I-O data PCSC-F (NinjaSCSI-3) I-O data CBSC-II in 16 bit mode (NinjaSCSI-32Bi) SCSI device: I-O data CDPS-PX24 (CD-ROM drive) Media Intelligent MMO-640GT (Optical disk drive) 3. Install [1] Check your PC card is true "NinjaSCSI-3" card. If you installed pcmcia-cs already, pcmcia reports your card as UNKNOWN card, and write ["WBT", "NinjaSCSI-3", "R1.0"] or some other string to your console or log file. You can also use "cardctl" program (this program is in pcmcia-cs source code) to get more info. # cat /var/log/messages ... Jan 2 03:45:06 lindberg cardmgr[78]: unsupported card in socket 1 Jan 2 03:45:06 lindberg cardmgr[78]: product info: "WBT", "NinjaSCSI-3", "R1.0" ... # cardctl ident Socket 0: no product info available Socket 1: product info: "IO DATA", "CBSC16 ", "1" [2] Get Linux kernel source, and extract it to /usr/src. Because NinjaSCSI driver requiers some SCSI header files in Linux kernel source. I recomend rebuilding your kernel. This eliminate some versioning problem. $ cd /usr/src $ tar -zxvf linux-x.x.x.tar.gz $ cd linux $ make config ... [3] If you use this driver with Kernel 2.2, Unpack pcmcia-cs in some directory and make & install. This driver requies pcmcia-cs header file. $ cd /usr/src $ tar zxvf cs-pcmcia-cs-3.x.x.tar.gz ... [4] Extract this driver's archive somewhere, and edit Makefile, then do make. $ tar -zxvf nsp_cs-x.x.tar.gz $ cd nsp_cs-x.x $ emacs Makefile ... $ make [5] Copy nsp_cs.ko to suitable place, like /lib/modules//pcmcia/ . [6] Add these lines to /etc/pcmcia/config . If you use pcmcia-cs-3.1.8 or later, we can use "nsp_cs.conf" file. So, you don't need to edit file. Just copy to /etc/pcmcia/ . ------------------------------------- device "nsp_cs" class "scsi" module "nsp_cs" card "WorkBit NinjaSCSI-3" version "WBT", "NinjaSCSI-3", "R1.0" bind "nsp_cs" card "WorkBit NinjaSCSI-32Bi (16bit)" version "WORKBIT", "UltraNinja-16", "1" bind "nsp_cs" # OEM card "WorkBit NinjaSCSI-32Bi (16bit) / IO-DATA" version "IO DATA", "CBSC16 ", "1" bind "nsp_cs" # OEM card "WorkBit NinjaSCSI-32Bi (16bit) / KME-1" version "KME ", "SCSI-CARD-001", "1" bind "nsp_cs" card "WorkBit NinjaSCSI-32Bi (16bit) / KME-2" version "KME ", "SCSI-CARD-002", "1" bind "nsp_cs" card "WorkBit NinjaSCSI-32Bi (16bit) / KME-3" version "KME ", "SCSI-CARD-003", "1" bind "nsp_cs" card "WorkBit NinjaSCSI-32Bi (16bit) / KME-4" version "KME ", "SCSI-CARD-004", "1" bind "nsp_cs" ------------------------------------- [7] Start (or restart) pcmcia-cs. # /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia start (BSD style) or # /etc/init.d/pcmcia start (SYSV style) 4. History See README.nin_cs . 5. Caution If you eject card when doing some operation for your SCSI device or suspend your computer, you encount some *BAD* error like disk crash. It works good when I using this driver right way. But I'm not guarantee your data. Please backup your data when you use this driver. 6. Known Bugs In 2.4 kernel, you can't use 640MB Optical disk. This error comes from high level SCSI driver. 7. Testing Please send me some reports(bug reports etc..) of this software. When you send report, please tell me these or more. card name kernel version your SCSI device name(hard drive, CD-ROM, etc...) 8. Copyright See GPL. 2001/08/08 yokota@netlab.is.tsukuba.ac.jp