Re: Booting an IBM E20
On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Jean-Francois Gobin wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I can't find any pointers, so I'm writting in here.
>
> I just rescued an IBM RS/6000 E20 7024 (with 384 MB RAM, 4 SCSI HD, DDS
> TAPE, CDROM, IN board SCSI NCR53c825 and additionnal SCSI NCR53c825
> contr) from crushing.
>
> When I boot it with debian PReP images (TFTP), It hangs after the internal
> SCSI controller (which has an IRQ of 0!!!). Well hanging is not really
> exact. After a long long long time, it loops writing resetting,
> timeout_serial_number and so on.
>
> If I put ncr53x8xx=safe:y, it hangs.
>
> I've tried removing the scsi controller, removing all devices, nothing to
> be done.
>
> I guess it has something to do with the fact that the internal SCSI
> controller is on the PCI BUS #1 ?
>
> Any idea ?
>
> Jean-Francois
>
New elements : yesterday, it get further saying "CACHE INCORRECT" (you
know : ncr wrote 2, host reads 0" and so on ...
Any idea for me ?
>
>
>
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