[Aurora-sparc-devel] Any updates on E3500 working on Aurora 2?

[Lamar Owen]

On Thursday 17 August 2006 12:34, haroldkarl at juno.com wrote:
> So, I thought I would try Aurora 2 on this beast... it gets stuck
> loading the FC driver.... I have tried the beta 2, the just plain 2
> burned slow 12x... all the same...

Aurora 2.0's kernel doesn't have a working fibre channel driver.  Has 
something to do with firmware; David Miller posted a while back (it should be 
in the sparc-linux kernel archives) in response to my question about it, and 
his indication was that it hasn't worked since kernel 2.2, redhat 6.2.

You can, however, use an external SCSI drive, or, if you get a hard drive 
board (takes one of your slots in back) an internal SCSI drive (cabled to the 
external SCSI connector on one of your I/O boards).  I have an E3500 here 
that I ended up loading Solaris 10 on due to this (it has 3 36GB FCAL drives 
in it, and I needed to get some experience with Sol10 anyway).  I also have 
Aurora 2.0 running on an E5500 and an E6500 successfully, with the exception 
on really heavy I/O loads on the E5500, where the kernel panics.
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