----- Original Message -----
From: dale-bresnan
To: Geert Uytterhoeven
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: PowerPC Debian install on IBM 43P boot problems...
geert;
you are correct.
fingers got happy.
but anyway, searching the 2.6.8 kernel code ,
i can find no reference the the error messages
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out – resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0
Ncr53c8xx_reset : pid = 0 reset_flags = 2 serial_number=(increasing numbers)
serial_number_at_timeout= (increasing numbers)
but found a reference in the ncr driver about status returned
/*
** Check for no terminators or SCSI bus shorts to ground.
** Read SCSI data bus, data parity bits and control signals.
** We are expecting RESET to be TRUE and other signals to be
** FALSE.
*/
so isolating the 'boot' drive and terminating the scsi chain can help.
dale
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geert Uytterhoeven" <ge...@linux-m68k.org>
To: "dale-bresnan" <dal...@bresnan.net>
Cc: "Bruno Gallichand" <bruno.gallich...@cae.com>;
<debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 1:32 AM
Subject: Re: PowerPC Debian install on IBM 43P boot problems...
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:29 PM, dale-bresnan <dal...@bresnan.net> wrote:
>> there were two types of scsi controller on the 43P systems
>> the onboard is/was 53c810 which has a SE/LVD drive interface.
>> optional was 53c825 which is a HVD drive interface.
>
> Euh, according to my memories (and sym_dev_table[] in
> drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c seems to agree), the 53c810 is a narrow
> Fast SCSI chip, so it is old SE, not SE/LVD. LVD was only introduced with
> Ultra2 SCSI.
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
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