Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 11255
Old SPARC 2 SCSI error
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:55 EDT
I have a SPARCStation 2 and I have been unable to get 2.2.1.45 to boot after install. I repartitioned with fdisk s on both SCSI drives and everything installed fine from the SCSI CD. After install I get the following esp0: IRQ 3 SCSI ID 7 Clk 20 MHz CCF=4 TOut 167 NCR53C90A (esp100a) ESP: Total of 1 ESP hosts found, 1 actually in use scsi0: Sparc ESP100A (NCR53C90A) scsi: 1 host esp0: Warning, live target 0 not responding to selection This last message keeps running and until I press stop A
Re: 2.2.x fails to boot on SPARC 2 (scsi problems) David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com) Fri, 7 May 1999 18:43:40 -0700 Maybe in reply to: Max: "2.2.x fails to boot on SPARC 2 (scsi problems)" Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 11:19:12 -0700 From: Max <maxk@chinook.stanford.edu> I would be very surprised to hear that compiler choice matters. Believe it or not we had to fix a problem exactly like this in the 2.0.x Sparc kernels, in exactly the ESP driver, and exactly because egcs was being used as the compiler instead of gcc. The issue back then, was that egcs would move some memory references around (in a legal way, was not a compiler bug) that on slower machines would cause a race condition which would confuse the ESP driver and make it barf on disks that normally acted correctly. I am not saying we are certainly hitting the same issue here, but when I read your report, bells went off in my head and this is why I instantly asked what compiler you were using. I've also been told by a couple people that they were able to solve this problem by either getting a new drive or playing around with the cables and termination. Something somewhere in the new esp.c is probing something that esp.c under 2.0.x didn't. If you do resolve the issue in this way, please let me know, because I still consider the bug open at this point. Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ Next message: Aziwoqpd: "more FAT32 driver annihilated my filesystem...all before noon (fwd)" Previous message: Uwe Bonnes: "[Patch] Get consistent disk paging data with /proc/stat" Maybe in reply to: Max: "2.2.x fails to boot on SPARC 2 (scsi problems)"
RESOLVED by fiddling with SCSI settings. Faulty Matrox SCSI drive perhaps ? Disconnected first drive and reran install with no problems