[parisc-linux] Status report - B132L and 725/100

[Richard Hirst]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 02:15:58PM +0100, Andy Walker wrote:
> Quoting Andy Walker <squawker@start.no>:
> 
> > I had to pull the Bluefish F/W-Diff card (or at least disconnect the
> > disk) but it may have been termination problems causing the timeouts/
> > resets. Something else to test :-)
> 
> Okay, checked termination. Tried a different disk. Booted HP-UX on
> that disk. No luck with Linux.
> 
> Relevant part of the dmesg is:
> 
> ...
> 18. Bluefish Add-on FW-SCSI (4) at 0xfff8c000 [11], versions 0x13, 0x0, 0x89
> ...
> zalon_scsi_callback: Zalon vers field is 0x1, IRQ 34
> ncr53c8xx: 53c720 detected
> ncr53c720-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking, Differential
> scsi0 : ncr53c8xx-3.4.3b-20010512

Don't know why that is failing; does it always fail, or is it an
intermittant problem?  e.g. Are the disks detected at boottime?

You might try booting with something like

ncr53c8xx=sync:255,burst:0,verb:2

which slows it down and might help if it is intermittant (just guessing though)

Richard