I installed squeeze on an Ultra 10. My disks run on a SCSI controller PCI card, but the CD-ROM was still IDE. I didn't have any I/O errors with that...but then again, the amount of I/O might have been insignificant compared to a full IDE disk-based system (did a net install after booting from the CD)...are the IDE errors only for the HDD or for both CD and HDD?
Patrick 2011/12/9 Jack Hill <jackh...@jackhill.us> > On Fri, 9 Dec 2011, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 08:55:15AM -0500, Jack Hill wrote: >> >>> >>> I'm trying to install squeeze on my Ultra 5. The install failed with >>> I/O errors. I was fairly sure that the disk was fine because I had >>> no problems install/running Gentoo. After talking with some people >>> on #gentoo-sparc on freenode I learned that the IDE controller on >>> the Ultra 5 (01:03.0 IDE interface: Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0646 (rev >>> 03)) is buggy and these bugs aren't worked around in the new libata >>> driver, but are in the old-style IDE driver. >>> >>> Are there Debian install images/kernels in the repository that use >>> the old-style driver or will I have to build those myself? >>> >> >> I'd try to use the lenny-installer and upgrade from that. Ugly, but >> will likely take you less time. >> > > Thanks, I'll try lenny. If I upgrade to squeeze will I have a problem with > squeeze kernel using the libata driver? > > (I guess the correct way to answer this is just to try it. I'll report > back once I've had time to do that) > > Jack
