Re: Debian and Ibm RS6000 7043-150

[nicolas <nicolas@whisperingvault.net>]

On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 09:47, Sven Luther wrote:
> <snip> 
> > I grab the today build but like the yesterday, it doesn't detect my scsi
> > card. I open a shell, type modprobe sd_mod, retry detect hardware and it
> > complains about missing modules like ncr symbios logix, ide and usb stuff
> > :/ I use the
> > http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/2004-09-03/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-prep.initrd
> > 
> > Here is a cat /proc/pci extract:
> > 
> > Bus  0, device  16, function  0:
> >     SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c825 (rev 19).
> >       IRQ 23.
> >       Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=17.Max Lat=64.
> >       I/O at 0x1400 [0x14ff].
> >       Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfeeae000 [0xfeeae0ff].
> >       Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfeeaf000 [0xfeeaffff].
> > 
> > When the missing modules will be available ?
> 
> Notice that this should be sym53c8xx. Can you try booting and at the first
> oportunity go back, and change the priority to medium, and then chose the
> unstable mirror.
> 
> The added modules that fix this are not yet in sarge, and will probably not be
> until RC2 is released.
> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther

Hi,

I've tried this yesterday (even append DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low on the ppc
bootloader) but it always tells me that some modules are missing to
support my hardware, and that included NCR/Symbios logic module.

Regards

Nicolas