[Aurora-sparc-user] qlogicpti module on aurora 2.0 beta2 installation

[Douglas Cox]

Greetings Aurora Users!

My brother gave me an RS214 (I think) 7 bay array with 9.1GB drives in it, 
and I bought a qlogic PTI ISP SBUS SCSI differential card for $9 to drive it 
with my SS5.  I tried to install aurora2.0b2 using CD on the SS5 (170 with 
160MB) of ram, but got a kernel panic whenever I had the raid array powered 
up with the drives installed.  No error resulted if I pulled all the drives 
out -- the installation program loaded the qlogic driver, immediately 
followed by the esp driver.

I tried insmod-ing the qlogic module on my existing SS4 aurora2.0b2 
installation, but it also paniced the kernel whenever the harddrives were 
powered on -- although I did get to see the text of the kernel panic.  I got 
a little icon giving me a rasberry, then lots of trash that was 
unintelligible to me.

Here's the bottomline -- the array works fine in debian sparc, 
2.4.27-2-sparc32 kernel.  I can access every drive; seems to be stable.  I 
would infinitely prefer aurora, but I don't want to do without this cool 
raid array (my wife says it's not noisy enough in the server closet yet).  
Is there a problem with the qlogicpti driver in the red hat source tree, or 
is it a 2.6 kernel incompatibility?  Does anyone have any intel on this one?

Thanks in advance!
Doug Cox