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

[Adam Kropelin]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> 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)

That's what I was thinking. I'm tripping over spare discs around here, 
so I could install 2.0, stick in the 2.98 kernel and verify that it 
breaks, then stuff in a test kernel with DaveM's new esp driver.

--Adam