Dave Addison wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Simon Burley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> writes
> >
> >Oops. Sorry. Your CDROM is known to be a problem.
> >S.
> Fortunately it's not my CD-ROM. I borrowed it from work to avoid doing
> an NFS install. If I buy one I'll make sure its not the Sony.
> Unfortunately disconnecting it doesn't get rid of the problem.
>
> When you say you're having exactly the same problem, do you mean you
> have the same disk? or just the same errors?
>
> I've already tried putting the disk in the scsi.c blacklist without any
> noticeable improvement. Of course, this may mean I messed up the mods.
> At the moment I'm trying to put a floppy bootdisk together to see if
> booting the kernel off that makes any difference.
I see the scsi resets too, upon boot. I read in the sparc archive that
others have seen this too, and it doesn't seem to affect anything once
the system is booted - the theme was 'don't worry too much about it'. I
have three drives on my Sparc 2. I get a reset for two of them,
including the Sun drive (!). One doesn't get a reset on boot.
Did you get any further with the Seagate disk connected? It could be
termination - remember, the internal drive should have _no termination_,
the internal termination is on the motherboard. The external
termination should only be done by the Sun terminator or equivalent.
I blacklisted my IBM CDROM last night, and re-compiled the kernel. I
didn't get a chance to test the new kernel, because it took 1 hour, 15
mins to compile - long after I went to bed! I'll post the results when I
test it out. Two things, however, strike me as strange here:-
1. My IBM cdrom works fine on intel/linux without blacklisting.
2. The cdrom installs sparc/linux when booted from the install floppy,
but the installed kernel can't/won't talk to it.
Can anyone on the list suggest a reason for this?
Did your blacklisting of the cdrom fix your cdrom problem?
Simon
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