[suse-sparc] News on Kernel 2.2.19 on SparcStation 5

From: Thomas Schmid (Thomas.Schmid@ascom.ch)
Date: Mon Sep 24 2001 - 10:16:07 PDT

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From: "Thomas Schmid" <Thomas.Schmid@ascom.ch>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 19:16:07 +0200
Subject: [suse-sparc] News on Kernel 2.2.19 on SparcStation 5

    Hi all,

    some news on my problem with kernel 2.2.19 and mutiple scsi disks /
    external CD-Roms:

    It looks like Dan Carter's tip works: compile the scsi driver "esp.c" with
    a older GCC
    compiler.

    I downloaded gcc-2.8.1 onto my SS5 #1 and compiled the gcc-2.8.1 using
    gcc-2.9.5-2,
    bison, flex and gnu-make from SuSE 7.1 SPARC.

    After that I transfered the gcc-2.8.1 onto my SS5 #2 (with SuSE 7.3 beta1
    installed), re-
    compiled the whole 2.2.19 kernel with the "normal" gcc-2.95-3 compiler.
    Then I removed
    the "esp.o" file, and re-compiled just the "esp.c" again using the
    gcc-2.8.1 compiler.
    After that I linked the whole kernel using gcc-2.9.5-3 / ld, installed the
    kernel and rebooted.

    Tests with an external hardrive (old SUN 2GB) and the external CD-R
    (Plextor 8/20)
    showed none of the usual scsi errors when I (write-) accessed the external
    disk or did
    install software (using yast1) from the CD-Rom. Normally all these actions
    created a
    lot of scsi errors almost instantaneously.

    Thomas 

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