Re: Lenny on E4500, esp_scsi won't detect disks
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 06:16:05PM -0700, Mr Ian Primus wrote: > So, now I have Linux installed. Next task: getting the fibre channel > working. I'm currently digging through the configuration options on the > kernel. (Downloaded 2.6.33.1 from kernel.org) I can't for the life of me > find the Sun fibre channel driver. I could have sworn it was SOC or > something like that... On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 06:46:56PM -0700, Mr Ian Primus wrote: > Doing some more digging, it seems that the Sun fibre channel driver is > missing from recent versions of the kernel, the newest one I've been able > to find that contains it is 2.6.23. On this kernel, it's in drivers/fc4, > and Fibre Channel support is a menu option right in the main menu after > make menuconfig. I can't find this driver in the newer kernels. Does > anyone know what happened to it? Did it get merged in with another driver? > > I really want to get this A5000 working :) fc4 was removed in October 2007 with this commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1ecd3902c6e16c2445165b872c49e73770b72da7 -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100317095222.ga16...@orion.carnet.hr
Re: Lenny on E4500, esp_scsi won't detect disks
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Mr Ian Primus wrote: Doing some more digging, it seems that the Sun fibre channel driver is missing from recent versions of the kernel, the newest one I've been able to find that contains it is 2.6.23. On this kernel, it's in drivers/fc4, and Fibre Channel support is a menu option right in the main menu after make menuconfig. I can't find this driver in the newer kernels. Does anyone know what happened to it? Did it get merged in with another driver? I really want to get this A5000 working :) The fc and fc4 code has been broken for at least 5 years due to having no maintainer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.lnx.2.00.1003170921520.31...@mailgate.netunix.com
Re: Lenny on E4500, esp_scsi won't detect disks
Doing some more digging, it seems that the Sun fibre channel driver is missing from recent versions of the kernel, the newest one I've been able to find that contains it is 2.6.23. On this kernel, it's in drivers/fc4, and Fibre Channel support is a menu option right in the main menu after make menuconfig. I can't find this driver in the newer kernels. Does anyone know what happened to it? Did it get merged in with another driver? I really want to get this A5000 working :) -Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/876254.4671...@web52601.mail.re2.yahoo.com
Re: Lenny on E4500, esp_scsi won't detect disks
--- On Tue, 3/16/10, Frans van Berckel wrote: > Ian Primus wrote: > > lsmod reports that esp_scsi and sun_esp are both > loaded. I can't remove/reinsert the module because rmmod > isn't a valid command from the installer disc. > > Will modprobe -r do what you are looking for? Hehe. Yeah, that's the one. Forgot about that :) Ok, so, I managed to trick the installer by removing the module before detect-disks ran. This allowed detect-disks to load the module and see the SCSI hard drive. So, now I have Linux installed. Next task: getting the fibre channel working. I'm currently digging through the configuration options on the kernel. (Downloaded 2.6.33.1 from kernel.org) I can't for the life of me find the Sun fibre channel driver. I could have sworn it was SOC or something like that... -Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/17772.86388...@web52601.mail.re2.yahoo.com
Re: Lenny on E4500, esp_scsi won't detect disks
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 19:50 -0700, Mr Ian Primus wrote: > lsmod reports that esp_scsi and sun_esp are both loaded. I can't > remove/reinsert the module because rmmod isn't a valid command from the > installer disc. Will modprobe -r do what you are looking for? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1268729701.1765.45.ca...@deblnxsrv254.localdomain
Lenny on E4500, esp_scsi won't detect disks
I'm attempting to install Debian on my Sun Enterprise 4500. I've downloaded the Sparc netinst (5.0.4), cut the disc and booted the Sun from it. All seems to go well, but then it complains it can't find the CDROM. By manually telling it to use /dev/cdrom, it'll continue, but as soon as it goes to detect disks it's all over. The console spews esp0 errors, the scsi bus gets reset a couple times, and then it eventually hangs up the bus. After that, it can't even read the CDROM any more. Watching the console as things are booting, I can see that the esp_scsi module does indeed find the CDROM, and the hard disk. A cat of /proc/scsi/scsi lists the devices on the bus (just the internal DVDROM drive and the external hard disk), and cat of /proc/partitions shows sda. It just seems that as soon as it tries to "detect disks", then it loses it's brains. lsmod reports that esp_scsi and sun_esp are both loaded. I can't remove/reinsert the module because rmmod isn't a valid command from the installer disc. Before booting from the CD, OpenBoot can see the hard drive and DVDROM from probe-scsi, and the devices are connected and terminated properly. Any ideas? -Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/963337.39993...@web52601.mail.re2.yahoo.com
