[Aurora-sparc-user] 2.98: SCSI esp errors prevent installation on U1

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 18:26 -0400, Adam Kropelin wrote:
> After a successful install on my U60, I decided to dust off my U1 and 
> give that a go. I'm unable to get very far due to SCSI (esp) errors. The 
> installer kernel probes the bus successfully and locates sda with proper 
> identity strings. However, it immediately thereafter starts aborting 
> commands, reports a DMA error, resets the SCSI bus, and offlines the 
> device. I can write down the exact dmesg errors if that is useful. (Is 
> there a way to switch ttys during install with a serial console? That 
> would save some writing...) I've tried multiple disks in various 
> positions in the chassis as well as add/removing a SCSI cdrom drive to 
> permute the bus, but all configs behave essentially the same.

Yeah, SBUS driven Ultras aren't happy in the 2.98 kernel. DaveM is
working on some stuff to try and make things better, and I'm spinning
test kernels for that now. Hopefully, it will also make things better
for sparc32s (new esp driver!), but that's me being optimistic.

~spot