Re: Serious SCSI problem on Lenny networkinstall image

["letstry@home.nl" <letstry@home.nl>]

Otavio Salvador wrote:
> "letstry@home.nl" <letstry@home.nl> writes:
>
> > Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > > "letstry@home.nl" <letstry@home.nl> writes:
> > >
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > Before you guys go ask the whole standard "chain" of questions about
> > > > my SCSI setup, it might be nice to say that a debootstrap install of
> > > > Debian 5 (via Ubuntu livecd) + apt-get update/upgrade produced a
> > > > running system on both machines, without problems.
> > > > So the problem might be fixed there.
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > An interesting question about it is if you used regular Lenny kernel at
> > > installed system and if it worked well or not.
> > Hi again list,
> >
> > Hmmm, while looking at the kernel sourcecode for both Qlogic and
> > Adaptec controllers, it seems that timeout issues are causing the SCSI
> > errors. They happen on the 486 kernel, while not on the 686 kernel.
> >
> > Files I looked at:
> >   /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.26/drivers/scsi/qla1280.c for the Qlogic controller
> >   /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.26/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c for the Adaptec controller
> >
> > It might also be interrupt related, but I'm stuck here.
> > It's been a while since I looked at kernel code and programmed C (can still read it, more or less).
> >
> > I'll just wait for now.
> >
> > Is anyone else having the same SCSI problems with the debian-500-i386-netinst.iso network install image?
>
> [...]
>
>
> Please do a proper bug report to linux-2.6 and put all this details on
> that. You did a great job checking all this and then you really found a
> way to reproduce it in your system that allow us to "check" if it is
> fixed easily.
>
> So as you see it is a kernel bug and kernel team need to be aware of it.
Thanks for replying Otavio,

I will do a bug report.

Regards,

Jacco