Re: Potato SCSI probs on IIci install
Dave Huseby wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying install Potato from cd's made from cd images onto a Mac
> IIci. I have the
> 180 MB drive partitioned correctly, I have Penguin 17 with Potato
> kernel and root disks. I boot Linux from Penguin 17 and everything goes
>
> smootly. I have an external scsi cdrom that I am using for the install.
>
> I get the partitions initialized, but the install seems to be randomly
> failing during large file copies. Most of the time it gets through the
> kernel and module install just fine, but when it tries to load in
> base2_2.tgz it chokes. My Mac has 24MB of RAM and I set aside 40 MB of
> swap. I have tried two different drives in the external scsi enclosure
> (an old AppleCD 600i drive, and a new Ricoh CD-RW MP6200S drive that I
> had laying around). The old AppleCD 600i dies more often than the newer
>
> Ricoh drive. I have not been able to get past the base2_2.tgz load at
> all. The error message displayed on the screen is:
>
> Kernel panic: scsi: trying to call schedule() in interrupt, file scsi.c,
>
> line 1467
>
> This only happens when the file copy takes longer than a few minutes on
> the newer drive and when the copy takes longer than 30sec to 1min on the
>
> older one.
>
> Any ideas? I've even tried to copy the data from the CD onto another
> scsi hdd using another linux system, then hooking up the scsi drive on
> the same bus as the target drive on the mac. Trying that also causes
> the Kernel panic stated above.
>
> email me if you have any ideas at huseby@shockfusion.com
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dave
>
I've had this exact same problem. Try adding an active or passive
terminator to the external bus and the problem will diminsh but not
disappear.
--
Ray Knight
audilvr@speakeasy.org
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