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

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 19:01 -0400, Adam Kropelin wrote:
> 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.

Well, to test on the SBUS Ultras (1, 2), we'll almost certainly need to
make a new set of ISOs (which we can do).

The sparc32 is actually easier, because I can just shove the kernel into
a 2.0 environment and boot it. (We could probably do the same thing for
a U1, U2, but much less elegant)

~spot