Re: Well... at least it's constant! Can not get passed SCSI bus reset
Lance> Please review the following boot sequence of a SPARC 630MP
Lance> and if you can, shed some light as to why the unit wants to
Lance> cycle through the SCSI bus reset process continuously.
Lance> This is a self burned 2.1 debian CD image downloaded from
Lance> the debian site.
Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
Vendor: SONY Model: CD-ROM CDU-8012 Rev: 3.1e
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
In a recent message to the sparclinux list, this drive was reported as
failing to handle probing for multiple LUNs on startup. By default S/Linux
kernels are built with multiple LUN support so you need to build a kernel without multiple LUN support or add the following patch:
*** drivers/scsi/scsi.c.orig Thu Mar 18 09:23:21 1999
--- drivers/scsi/scsi.c Thu Mar 18 09:24:59 1999
***************
*** 261,266 ****
--- 261,269 ----
{"HP", "C1790A", "", BLIST_NOLUN}, /* scanjet iip */
{"HP", "C2500A", "", BLIST_NOLUN}, /* scanjet iicx */
{"YAMAHA", "CDR102", "1.00", BLIST_NOLUN}, /* extra reset */
+ {"SONY","CD-ROM CDU-8012","*", BLIST_NOLUN}, /* causes failed REQUEST SENSE on lun 1
+ * for SUN ESP controller, which causes
+ * SCSI code to reset bus.*/
/*
* Other types of devices that have special flags.
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