Uwe Schindler wrote: > At 16:03 13.01.2006, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > >> Jaakko Linnosaari wrote: >> > Patrick Caulfield wrote: >> > >> >>Has anyone got a recentish 2.6.x kernel to work on a pws433au box ? >> > >> > >> > Yes. My PWS433au box runs fine with 2.6.15. The kernel package is now >> > available at http://testoapina.tky.hut.fi/kernel/ if you want to take a >> > look. >> > >> >> Thanks very much for that - much quicker than compiling a new kernel! >> >> But that kernel won't boot either. I just get tons of I/O errors >> scrolling on >> the display. >> >> Maybe the disk really is shot and only 2.6 can see the problem ? (2.4 is >> fine). Maybe I'll try and dig out a different disk sometime. > > > We do not know which type of scsi controller your machine has. If it is > the mentioned QLogic ISP1020/1040 then the following could be the problem: > * Linux 2.4 uses the "isp1020" module for this controller > * Linux 2.6 had isp1020 until version 2.6.9 (in Debian until 2.6.8-1, > later Norbert backported the modified qla1280 from 2.6.10 to debian > stable 2.6.8-2). Since then the new driver "qla1280" is used. isp1020 is > no longer in use because of a missing error handler and no maintainer > that supported that module. In recent kernels I think it is completely > removed! > > So I exspect the following: > * The old isp1020 driver has no or only minor error handling, so the > errors do not appear on Linux 2.4 > * Linux 2.6 uses now qla1280 with correct error handling -> errors are > detected and are displayed (I guess the errors with your disk are no > fatal ones...) > > I have seen the follwing with my Alphastation because at first it missed > a terminator at the outside end of the SCSI card. Linux 2.4 didn't see > this. Linux 2.6<=2.6.8-1 showed a error message at boot about missing > error handling in qlogicisp. When I then updated to the new kernel > driver (about one year ago) the scsi driver showed sometimes some > non-fatal errors. I terminated the bus and since then all is OK. Before > I also had some serious file system corruption in EXT3 because of the > missing error handling. > > Could it be that there is some SCSI termination problem that is not > detected by the old qlogicisp driver in 2.4? >
Yes, it is the Qlogic. Hmm quite possible. I'll investigate. VMS seems to run fine which is odd but I have been inside the box to move scsi bits around so it's possible that something has been knocked out. Thanks very much -- patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
