[parisc-linux] Followup: 735/125 hangs...

[Christian Suder]

Thanks, Albert !

With the boot options I was able to get the base install from an NFS
mounted source (CD still did bail on me close to the finish line...), I
have now yesterdays snapshot with the new SCSI driver running which
appears fine. 

	Christian


On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Albert Strasheim wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> My 720/50 had similiar problems. I don't know what kind of SCSI chipset
> you have, but I needed to add the following kernel command line
> parameter to get my SCSI disks to work properly:
> 
> sim700=noneg:0xff,nodisc:0xff or sim700=nodisc:0xff
> 
> This more or less solved my problems. Writing the superblock info still
> took some time (think 10 minutes), but it got it done. :-)
> 
> In a message from Richard Hirst a few days ago, when he checked in a new
> driver for the 53c700 and 53c710 chips:
> 
> The main improvements in this driver are sync transfers (where the scsi
> chip allows it) and tagged commands.  Also disconenct/reselect works
> properly, so there is no longer any need to boot with sim700=nodisc:0xff
> (or similar).
> 
> So I guess if you compile the latest kernel, and make a new debian
> bootfloppies lifimage to boot from, you should be fine. Alternatively,
> the options above might also fix your problems with the LOOP_CTL thingy.
> 
> When in doubt, do a network install. :-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Albert
> 
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Christian Suder wrote:
> 
> > 
> > FWIW, 
> > 
> > I repartitioned the HD, from boot-swap-root to boot-root-swap. Formatting
> > the filesystem went until after the message about tune2fs
> > appears. Powercycled and did not format again but selected 'use existing
> > fs'. Hangs with : 'ioctl: LOOP_CLR_FD: No such device or address' when
> > installing the system image. 
> > 
> > Tried the same excercise again and got lots of 
> > 
> >  - block = 4244379656, count = 1
> > EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,2)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in
> > datazone - block = 4269604550, count = 1
> > 
> > Hmmm.... saw the same when the C110 had problems. 
> > 
> > Used the same CD on a 712/80 with no problems at all !
> > 
> > 	Christian
> > 
> > 
> > 
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