Hi,
Great! It works beatifully now. I compiled a 2.2.19 kernel
specifically for that machine, with no modules, and got no errors. As I want
a more general purpose ("general machine", actually) rescue disk, I will now
compile one with modules and etc. (recompile busybox...)
Thanks again.
Diego.
> ----- Mensagem original -----
> De: Tom Oehser [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Enviada em: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 11:32 PM
> Para: Diego Francisco de Gastal Morales
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Assunto: Re: [tomsrtbt] aic7xxxx raw access problem
>
>
> Given that the root of the problem is the aic7xxx driver that is in the
> 2.0.x kernel is older, and difficult to upgrade, the best solution is to
> slap a 2.2.x kernel on there. I am not yet at the point where I can
> upgrade the default (and time is tighter if anything, I just started a new
> job), but it isn't hard to make your own. Just compile a 2.2.x kernel
> with only what you need (and everything you need), plus minix-fs and
> floppy support and ramdisk support, unpack.s, replace 1/zImage, buildit.s,
> and you should be good to go. Let me know if it solves the problem (I
> suspect it will). -Tom
>
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Diego Francisco de Gastal Morales wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 22:16:34 -0300
> > From: Diego Francisco de Gastal Morales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: [tomsrtbt] aic7xxxx raw access problem
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have (at my job) some servers with SCSI controllers
> > AIC-7899/Ultra160, and when I make somekind of raw access like mkfs,
> > restore, backup, I get timeout errors.
> > Anyway, the SCSI bus is reset and things get going, until timeout
> > again, reset, go, timeout, and so on. It (take longer but) finishes, and
> it
> > seems to leave no errors on the media/fs, but I keep the feeling of "if
> this
> > goes wrong when I most need it?"
> > Also, the bus is always accessed at 80Mb/s, not 160, why that? On
> > debian (kernel 2.2) runing in the same machine it goes fine (no errors
> at
> > all, 160Mb/s).
> >
> > Is there a solution for this? I've looked on archive, and found
> > similar topics, but no solutions.
> > Speed is not the most important in the process (get a new disk,
> > partition it, create fs, restore backup), but it is desireble.
> >
> > I took a look on other floppy-distributions, but I really loved
> > tomsrtbt :)
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> > Diego Morales,
> > Porto Alegre, RS / Brazil
> >
