"lets...@home.nl" <lets...@home.nl> writes:
> Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> "lets...@home.nl" <lets...@home.nl> writes:
>>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> Before you guys go ask the whole standard "chain" of questions about
>>> my SCSI setup, it might be nice to say that a debootstrap install of
>>> Debian 5 (via Ubuntu livecd) + apt-get update/upgrade produced a
>>> running system on both machines, without problems.
>>> So the problem might be fixed there.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> An interesting question about it is if you used regular Lenny kernel at
>> installed system and if it worked well or not.
>>
> Hi again list,
>
> Hmmm, while looking at the kernel sourcecode for both Qlogic and
> Adaptec controllers, it seems that timeout issues are causing the SCSI
> errors. They happen on the 486 kernel, while not on the 686 kernel.
>
> Files I looked at:
> /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.26/drivers/scsi/qla1280.c for the Qlogic
> controller
> /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.26/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c for the
> Adaptec controller
>
> It might also be interrupt related, but I'm stuck here.
> It's been a while since I looked at kernel code and programmed C (can still
> read it, more or less).
>
> I'll just wait for now.
>
> Is anyone else having the same SCSI problems with the
> debian-500-i386-netinst.iso network install image?
[...]
Please do a proper bug report to linux-2.6 and put all this details on
that. You did a great job checking all this and then you really found a
way to reproduce it in your system that allow us to "check" if it is
fixed easily.
So as you see it is a kernel bug and kernel team need to be aware of it.
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