As it has been discussed many times in the past, the qlogic isp driver is broken on the alpha architecture. Use the Feral driver.
Best Regards, --George On Wednesday 04 February 2004 20:14, Jim Crilly wrote: > In a previous message to debian-alpha I mentioned a problem with the > qlogicisp driver. The symptoms seem to show that when nothing is > connected to channel 0 on the card it 'hangs' the machine while it > infinitely retries to find a device on channel 0, id 0, lun 0 and never > moved on to channel 1. I have nothing on channel 0 because it has a > 68-pin connector and all of the SCSI drives in that machine are 50-pin > which is what channel 1 is, it all I had to do was move a cable I would > have done that already but sadly it's not that simple. > > The error message repeated over and over (about 1/second) is: "scsi : > aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel0, id 0, lun 0, > Inquiry 00 00 00 ff 00" > > Since I know that a pristine kernel.org 2.4.24 tree boots fine I > downloaded the kernel-source-2.4.24 package to compile it and see what > happened (the kernel-image-2.4.24-1-generic package gave me problems, > but that's a different issue) and when it booted it did the same thing > as the kernel on the d-i image. Like I also mentioned in the other email > I believe the problem appeared at 2.4.20 (i.e. 2.4.19 works fine). I > gave a quick look to the differences between the extract > kernel-source-2.4.24 and the kerne.org 2.4.24 trees but I didn't see > anything, but that's not surprising since my kernel development > knowledge is extremely thin. > > For the record this is a Digital PWS600au with a QLogic "new isp1020 > revision ID (5)" according to the 2.6.0-mm2 kernel driver, although SRM > 'sho con' says 1040, not sure if that's important. If you need any more > information let me know. > > Please CC me on any correspondence as I'm not subscribed to debian-boot. > > As a side note, I was wondering if a 2.6 kernel would be an option for > d-i? I know 2.4 will most likely be the default but it would be nice to > have the option. > > Thanks, > Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]