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

[Adam Kropelin]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> 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.

I'm happy to help with testing if you need it.

--Adam