2 Problems with the kernel

From: Martin Kahlert (martin.kahlert@mchp.siemens.de)
Date: Mon Sep 06 1999 - 00:59:37 PDT

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    Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 09:59:37 +0200
From: Martin Kahlert <martin.kahlert@mchp.siemens.de>
Message-ID: <19990906095937.A593@keksy.mchp.siemens.de>
Subject: 2 Problems with the kernel

    Hi,
    yesterday i installed SuSE-6.1-AXP on my Ruffian board.
    Nearly everything went fine, but i have 2 problems:

    I wanted to upgrade from the 2.2.9-Suse kernel to the recent
    2.2.12 (which is a bit friendlier to Solaris 2.7....)
    But it couldn't boot. I compiled with the NCR53C7/8xx driver
    2.2.9 recognizes my NCR53C875 onboard controller any problems)
    but with 2.2.12 i get a SCSI: 0 hosts message at boot time,
    which produces a slight problem when mounting my root partition later on.

    I have a kernel without module support, the driver is compiled into
    the kernel. I compiled by egcs-1.1.2 and by gcc-2.95.1.
    Both kernels have the same problem. Did i miss anything very important?

    My second problem is this:
    i have a iomega zip drive (the older 100MB version plugged into the
    parallel port). I used to do modprobe ppa
    and mount /dev/sdb1 /zip with my 2.0.38 kernel. The modprobe
    command seems to work (in the logfile it tells me, it found the drive)
    but the mount command says /dev/sdb1 is not a valid block device
    or something like that. fdisk -l /dev/sdb doesn't work either.
    Has anything changed since my 2.0.* days in the naming of the
    parport devices? (i tried fdisk -l /dev/sd[b-z], too).
    This all happens with SuSE's vanilla kernel (my 2.2.12 doesn't work, yet - sigh).

    Thanks for any help,
    Martin. 

    -- 
esa$ gcc -Wall -o ariane5 ariane5.c
ariane5.c: 666: warning: long float implicitly truncated to unsigned type
esa$ ariane5

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