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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: PowerPC Debian install on IBM 43P boot problems...

geert;
 
you are correct.
fingers got happy.
but anyway, searching the 2.6.8 kernel code ,
i can find no reference the the error messages

SCSI host 0   abort   (pid 0)  timed out – resetting

SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0

Ncr53c8xx_reset : pid = 0  reset_flags = 2  serial_number=(increasing numbers)   serial_number_at_timeout= (increasing numbers)

but found a reference in the ncr driver about status returned

/*
**      Check for no terminators or SCSI bus shorts to ground.
**      Read SCSI data bus, data parity bits and control signals.
**      We are expecting RESET to be TRUE and other signals to be
**      FALSE.
*/

so isolating the 'boot' drive and terminating the scsi chain can help.

dale

 

 

 
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geert Uytterhoeven" <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: "dale-bresnan" <dalep1@bresnan.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 1:32 AM
Subject: Re: PowerPC Debian install on IBM 43P boot problems...

> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:29 PM, dale-bresnan <dalep1@bresnan.net> wrote:
>> there were two types of scsi controller on the 43P systems
>> the onboard is/was 53c810 which has a SE/LVD drive interface.
>> optional was 53c825 which is a HVD drive interface.
>
> Euh, according to my memories (and sym_dev_table[] in
> drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c seems to agree), the 53c810 is a narrow
> Fast SCSI chip, so it is old SE, not SE/LVD. LVD was only introduced with
> Ultra2 SCSI.
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                        Geert
>
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