Re: AlphaStation 500 installation
Now this is really interesting. I've been having problems with my
multia, especially with the external scsi box and its cd drive. It has
a "in" and "out" scsi connector on the box, and I've got a terminator
plug on that, which used to be enough, I thought. So the cd drive (a
Mashita?) worked okay when I first was trying to install sarge, then
woody), but then I tried adding an old micropolis 1.7gb scsi drive,
and never have been able to get the multia to see both it and the cd
drive at the same time. One or the other, but not both, regardless of
what I set the scsi ids at.
But even worse, after fooling around with this for awhile, I
started getting a lot of scsi errors when sarge is booted up, scsi bus
reset over and over, like maybe I damaged the scsi controller?
Now, however, I'm wondering if it's a driver problem? I'm running
the 2.4.27 kernel.
This is a different scsi controller, of course, than you are talking
about below -- mine is the stock multia sym -- and I think it's the
sym-2.1.17a driver. I've also done a partial upgrade to etch, that is,
a "apt-get upgrade" not a dist-upgrade -- there was no room, which is
why I was trying to add an external drive.
On 3/3/06, Uwe Schindler <uwe@thetaphi.de> wrote:
> I have a Alphastation 500/500 with exactly that configuration and
> installation of Sarge worked about one year ago (kernel from boot-cd
> was 2.4.27), but not very good (problem with XFS filesystem, scsi
> ternination,...). It depended on the CD drive. A yamaha one didn't
> work (exactly your problem). Then I installed a TEAC CD-R60 and it worked.
>
> The problem could be that qlogicisp driver of linux 2.4. The error
> handling in this driver is rather bad (it later crashed my harddisk
> filesystem because of a missing terminator, latzer booting with a
> kernel 2.6 with qla1280 driver showed the ternmination problems...).
>
> Please check the follwoing:
> * is the bus correctly terminated (it is important that there is a
> plugable scsi terminator on the external scsi slot because the qlogic
> controller is not auto-terminating the external slot)?
> * it is better to use a recent 2.6 kernel on the alphastation 500 (be
> sure to use the LATEST debian 2.6.15 from debian, older versions have
> a problem in the IRQ handler that sometimes crash the system in the
> Alcor [= Alphastation] variation). Try using a recent Testing/Etch
> installation CD (a CD with kernel 2.6.15 was released 2 weeks ago).
> This boots without any problems and should install fine.
>
> At 22:59 03.03.2006, Steve Langasek wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 10:27:43PM +0100, Martin Walther wrote:
> > > Am 03.03.2006 um 21:53 schrieb Steve Langasek:
> >
> > > >What is the controller that the CD drive is connected to?
> >
> > > The scsi controller is the normal onboard scsi controller. It's a
> > > Qlogic ISP 1020 PCI SCSI Adapter.
> > > It looks like that the problem isn't in founding the scsi controller.
> > > Maybe the installer loads the wrong drivers. Anyway the installer
> > > couldn't mount the cd.
> >
> > > The CD drive is running but nothing realy happends.
> >
> >I'm afraid that definitely rules out any possibility of it being a missing
> >driver, since this driver is definitely present in the initrd and is the one
> >that I used for all my testing for sarge.
> >
> >If you switch to vt2 in the installer and look in /dev/discs, what does it
> >show?
> >
> >--
> >Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
> >Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.
> >vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
> >
>
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