[parisc-linux] Trouble installing 0.9.3 on 735/99

[Tom]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Carlos O'Donell Jr. wrote:
> I can't get any of the 715/50's to run stably with the newer
> SCSI driver. And after testing I can almost pinpoint with 95%
> accuracy tha it's the new driver.
>
> I have yet to go about running the latest kernel with the sim700
> driver. Though if I get some time this afternoon I will.
> (Just spent some time adding diskless 715/50's to our cluster)
>
> Has anyone been able to get SCSI disks that are not from HP
> to work on the 715's? (New terminator? Different terminator?)

I had a 1G HP /dev/sda and a 4G Micropolis /dev/sdb in my 715/100. Didn't
realize that HP actually expects you to terminate the unused ports on the
back until I was provided a link to my users manual :-) I also had to set
the drive's parity on, and enable the 'wait for start' command.

I also ran an IBM 4G DFHS-S4W drive on it initially. That was quite early
on in the process, though, so I had lots of crashes etc. that I don't know
were related to Debian/HPPA being 'alpha' software or due to the drive :-)