Message-ID: <3BA94D8D.370BEBFE@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 13:59:41 +1200 From: dan carter <dcarter@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Feedback on SuSE-7.3 on Sparc (Beta 1)
Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
>
> Ok, I have the same SPARCstation 5 in nearly the same configuration.
>
> Some of the problems you wrote are problems due the fact that the
> CD-ROM had problems to read self burned CDs (this is clear from the
> log messages, this are read errors from the CD drive).
But he had SCSI problems when installing from NFS too?
The SCSI problems with 2.2.x seem to be something some people get and
other don't. Multiple hard drives seem to tickle it, but i have seen
reports of people using multiple hard drives on 2.2.x on a SS5 and not
having problems. I assume it's some sort of gcc miscompile, but that's
a totally uneducated conclusion.
Using older gcc's it works fine, using newer ones it's causes bus
resets, and using even newer ones (2.96) the machine locks up
initialling scsi during boot.
2.4.x seems to be immune to the scsi problem.
Some more details on this bug report
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10424
What you can do, is compile just the esp.o driver with on old gcc(egcs),
but compile the reset of the kernel with a new gcc and then link it all
togeather. That produces a nice stable 2.2.x kernel that should work on
all SS5s.
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