Hi all, I've subscribed recently because I've bought 2 5501 to use as laboratory, with the goal of lowering power compsumption in the server farm of a couple of company for which I'm consultant.
I use debian. I've seen previous messages on performance in unbuffered i/o to sata interface (which I also suffer), I've applied the suggested patch to the kernel to get sata working without need of device to be exposed in PCI bus registers without success. Yesterday I downloaded the new 1.32h BIOS but, after flashing I got lot of i/o error and I'm no more able to mount root. Since I'm still in lab environment I decided to reinstall from scratch but PXE netboot of debian stock netinstall kernel recognize my toshiba 80GB sata disk as a 5000TB disk, failing i/o on lot of sectors. I've a dmesg output but I think is useless, because I can't reach my previous installed kernels and debian stock netinstall does not include any disk device driver in itself. So it boots ok and let me begin installation process. As soon as install scripts try to load ata/ide/scsi modules to probe hardware it starts to output i/o errors filling up the interesting part of dmesg. The default debian netinstall is: Linux version 2.6.18-5-486 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115... Please don't tell me I've to cross compile a more recent 2.6 to replace the netboot debian kernel... Thanks to all. Marco Basso. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
