Hi Ulrich! On 10/10/21 19:38, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > Just tested on a Alphastation 400 4/233. Booting went smooth (serial > console) but the CDROM (in a DEC RRD45) could not be mounted: > > .... > Oct 10 19:20:19 kernel: [ 324.340654] sr 0:0:4:0: [sr0] tag#265 unaligned > transfer > Oct 10 19:20:19 kernel: [ 324.340654] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev > sr0, sector 64 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 > Oct 10 19:20:19 kernel: [ 324.340654] isofs_fill_super: bread failed, > dev=sr0, iso_blknum=16, block=32 > ... > > I've burned another CD-ROM and tried booting from that one, but got the > same error, so I assume the unaligned transfer is the problem. Tried > a Plextor UltraPlex instead of the RRD45 as well, same problem,
I have not seen this issue before on any machine and usually, reading problems are due to hardware issues. Maybe the CD was not correctly burned? FWIW, the change to re-enable EISA on alpha in the Debian kernel config has not been merged yet due to bike-shedding over the proper changelog entry ... [1]. Adrian > [1] https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/402 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
