Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-04 Thread Jaakko Linnosaari
Maciej Matysiak wrote: thank you, i'll try that. could you please describe your storage setup? i mean, what's connected to your scsi card (internal/external drives). if i remember correctly, the problem which i have appears only when nothing is connected to external scsi interface (i have only inte

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 10:18:21AM +0300, Jaakko Linnosaari wrote: > Maciej Matysiak wrote: > >thank you, i'll try that. could you please describe your storage setup? > >i mean, what's connected to your scsi card (internal/external drives). > >if i remember correctly, the problem which i have appea

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-04 Thread Maciej Matysiak
On the 4th of May 2004 at 15:41, Steve Langasek wrote: > Could you post the output of lspci on your system? # lspci pcilib: Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices :00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 30) :00:07.0 ISA bridge: Contaq Microsystems 82

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-04 Thread Jay Estabrook
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 08:05:23PM +0200, Maciej Matysiak wrote: > > thank you, i'll try that. could you please describe your storage setup? > i mean, what's connected to your scsi card (internal/external drives). > if i remember correctly, the problem which i have appears only when nothing > is co

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-04 Thread Jay Estabrook
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 04:31:01PM +0200, Maciej Matysiak wrote: > > # lspci > pcilib: Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices > :00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip > 21142/43 (rev 30) > :00:07.0 ISA bridge: Contaq Microsystems 82c693 > :00:07.1 IDE interface

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-04 Thread Jay Estabrook
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 10:36:30AM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > > I have to stay on the 2.4.18 kernel and no other subsequent kernel will > work for my PC164SX. It may, somehow, have something to do with it or > be a completely unrelated problem. > > The new kernels mess up the PCI bus, so I get s

Advice to get it up Debian-alpha - inside 3

2004-05-04 Thread Vernon Dodson
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Recommendation for kernel/compiler versions on CS20?

2004-05-04 Thread Cernese, Dan
I was just given a couple DS20L(CS20), but I cannot seem to get any version of the kernel to compile that doesn't panic trying to mount the root fs. For now, I'm running a pre-packaged 2.2.20-generic (20021219) 3.0r1 'woody', and gcc 2.95.4. I've tried to build (2.2.20, 2.2.22) without SMP to avo

Re: Recommendation for kernel/compiler versions on CS20?

2004-05-04 Thread Adrian Zaugg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cernese, Dan wrote: | For now, I'm running a pre-packaged 2.2.20-generic (20021219) 3.0r1 'woody', | and gcc 2.95.4. I've tried to build (2.2.20, 2.2.22) without SMP to avoid what I've | seen about SMP issues, but no luck. I think you should try a new

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-04 Thread Jaakko Linnosaari
Steve Langasek wrote: Could you post the output of lspci on your system? There seems to be a possibility that the problems most people are running into on alphas are caused not by bugs in the drivers for individual controllers, but by bugs in the PCI setup routines; so PCI bridges may cause an othe

Alpha Miata IDE disk problem

2004-05-04 Thread fabio
Hi all, I have a MIATA PWS 500a with a custom Woody installation updated to SID, SRM boot. Debian is installed on a 20G 7200 rpms IDE disk. hdparm -t with a 2.2.x kernel reports a transfer rate of 1.3 MB/s hdparm -t with a custom compiled 2.4.26 reports a transfer rate of 13 MB/s. Ten times the 2

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 04:31:01PM +0200, Maciej Matysiak wrote: > On the 4th of May 2004 at 15:41, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Could you post the output of lspci on your system? > # lspci > pcilib: Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices > :00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-04 Thread Craig Small
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:27:33AM -0400, Jay Estabrook wrote: > > I'm sitting on Debian kernel package 2.4.18, this works but has some > > other issues. Any idea what has gone wrong? > > Any chance you could provide us with a log of "lspci -v"? Sure! I should also mention that while the 3com ca