Well, FWIW, I built a 2.2.21-pre2 kernel, and was unable to boot it with the Plextor SCSI CDRW drive on the bus.
The P2L97DS/Adaptec BIOS does see it, and depending on whether I enable LUNs in the Adaptec BIOS, I get slightly differing results. However, I also noticed that the Adaptec driver is 6.2.something, and is therefore basically the same <thing> that's in the 2.4/2.5 kernels. It is an SMP box (dual P-II's at 333MHz), and I do have the APIC stuff enabled (thanks, Kenny), and it's still barfing. My suspicion is that LUN 1 is raising the ATN bit and the driver can't cope with it, and no amount of SCSI bus resets clears it and therefore the driver loops, resetting the bus and getting nowhere. I'm not able to download the new firmware under SCU (the SCSI Configuration Utility) available under Tru64 and Linux (the latter if-and-only-if you've compiled in the sg* driver), so it appears that I'll have to plop in a spare spindle, and dust off my Neolithic Technology CD and pay brief homage to the Evil Empire and pump new firmware into it that way. Hopefully, it won't take too long and I can get it done before I have to defragment the disk. Thanks for the help, pointers, and suggestions. I'll let y'all know how things turned out! Cheers, Bayard ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bayard R. Coolidge N1HO DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed are Compaq Computer Corp. solely those of the author, and not Nashua, New Hampshire, USA those of Compaq Computer Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DEC '77-'98) or any other entity. "Brake for Moose - It could save your life" - N.H. Fish & Game Dept. -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS/CC d+ s:+ a++ C+++$ UO++$L++>$ P L++>$ E-@ W+ N++ o- K? w--- O? M? V-- PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP- t++ 5? X? R* tv b++ DI+++ D? G e++ h-- r++ y? UF++ -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
