Re: Installing etch on netra T1 200 => no disk found
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 14:41 +0100, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> I did not dare play with fdisk, any idea on what to try to recover 36GB?
> The disk reference: Seagate Cheetah 73LP 36GB 10K U160 80pin SCA-2 SCSI
> Hard Drive ST336605LC.
>
> I then dist-upgraded to lenny but at reboot it looks like
> when detecting the network the machine froze, just like the lenny
> installer did. Garbled in the serial console I believe I saw
> a kernel panic backtrace scrolling. My guess is that the
> lenny kernel driver for the ethernet card has some issue
> the etch kernel driver didn't have.
Given I have the same hardware very likely this
patch fixed the issue:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1030677
I'm willing to test if a new netinstall image is around.
> So back to reinstalling etch for me.
When reinstalling etch the 6GB disk issue was gone and I got
my full 36 GB. Go figure but now all works :).
Sincerely,
Laurent
>
> > ~ # lspci -nn
> > 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Ultra IIe [108e:a001]
> > 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Simba Advanced PCI Bridge [108e:5000] (rev 13)
> >
> > 00:01.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Simba Advanced PCI Bridge [108e:5000] (rev 13)
> >
> > 01:03.0 Non-VGA unclassified device [0000]: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU] [10b9:7101]
> > 01:05.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO GEM [108e:1101] (rev 01)
> >
> > 01:05.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO USB [108e:1103] (rev 01)
> > 01:07.0 ISA bridge [0601]: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+] [10b9:1533]
> > 01:0c.0 Bridge [0680]: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO EBUS [108e:1100] (rev 01)
> > 01:0c.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO GEM [108e:1101] (rev 01)
> > 01:0c.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO USB [108e:1103] (rev 01)
> > 01:0d.0 IDE interface [0101]: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE [10b9:5229] (rev c3)
> > 02:08.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53C896/897 [1000:000b] (rev 07)
> > 02:08.1 SCSI storage controller [0100]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53C896/897 [1000:000b] (rev 07)
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Laurent
> >
> >
>
>
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