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Re: Antw: Re: Install a Debian in an E/30



>>> christian mock <cm@tahina.priv.at> 02.03.2002  12.31 Uhr >>>

> > Alas, I have lost most of the RS/6000 kernel files in a hard disk crash, 
> > so I do not have the config file for this kernel. The driver that fails is 
> > the one under CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_2. The other 53C8XX drivers 
> > available also hang. Has anyone got an idea what could be wrong?

> just a data point: on my motorola blackhawk boxen (which are also 
> PReP), the SYM53C8XX driver panics the kernel at boot time when there 
> are more than 32 (or was it 64?) megs of RAM in the machine; this was 
> with 2_4_ppc_devel from the bitkeeper repository. Generally, I've 
> been unable to get SCSI going reliably with all the 2.4 series -- at 
> the best, it's hanging after some 10 minutes of uptime with SCSI 
> timeouts.

The machine has got 64 MiB of RAM. But I do need the SCSI drivers, as there
is no IDE controller or a similar thing :-(. Ideas, anyone?

Regards,
Benny.



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