install problem: aic7xxx encountered spurious IRQ / aborting command due to timeout
On Friday, 08 Aug 1997 10:54:01 +0200, I wrote the following mail:
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hi everybody,
my name is Dieter and I'm having problems to install the debian Linux
distribution.
My hardware:
- Mobo Shuttle HOT-419 (VLB with Opti chipset), AMD486/133, 32 MB RAM
- Adaptec AHA2842 (IRQ 11)
- ATI Graphics Turbo (Mach32 mit 2 MB VRAM)
- NE2000 compatiple card IRQ 15 IO 0x300
- IO card, 2x par (IRQ/IO as usual),
4x ser (COM1-COM2 IRQ/IO as usual,
COM3 IRQ 10 IO as usual, COM4 IRQ 12 IO 0x2F0)
This hardware is successfully running Linux 1.2.13 (Slakware 2.3) since
2 years.
During the last 2 weeks I installed Caldera Open Linux Standard 1.1 and
Slakware 3.2 (both employ kernel 2.0.29) without any problems. That
means: the 'all-purpose' boot diskettes started Linux successfully.
Now I tried the debian distribution 1.2 (with kernel 2.0.27) I found on
my Infomagic Linux Developer's Resource (6-CD-set inluding Slakware 3.2,
RedHat 4.1). I made the RESCUE floppy with 'dd if=rsc1440.bin
of=/dev/fd0H1440 bs=512' (tried it with several diskettes and even with
rsc1440r.bin) and got in every case
the following boot messages:
summary: aic7xxx detected and initialization messages
--> aic7xxx: encountered spurious interrupt
some other messages related to probing other hardware follows
--> scanning channel A for devices
--> aborting command due to timeout
--> pid 0, scsi 0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
--> test unit ready 00 00 00 00
--> kernel panic: scsi 0 BRKADRINT, error 0x1, seqaddr 0x0
I suspect, that the composition of the debian kernel is somewhat
different than those of Caldera and Slakware, but I have no idea in what
matter.
I hope, that some of the debian gurus can give me some help.
TIA and have a nice day.
Dieter
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Some people suggested to get the newest Debian release (1.3.1),
InfoMagic's issue of Debian (1.2.8) was broken (by InfoMagic). Okay, I
did so. Next round with Original Debian 1.3.1.
Guess, what? Same results as with 1.3.1. Is 1.3.1 broken, too (by
Debian)? In addition I get the same result on a second PC with the
following components:
- Mobo GigaByte GA586ATS (PCI with Triton), AMD K5/100, 64 MB RAM
- Adaptec AHA2940
- S3 Trio64 with 2 MB RAM
- NE2000 compatiple card IRQ 15 IO 0x300
- IO card, 2x par (IRQ/IO as usual),
4x ser (COM1-COM2 IRQ/IO as usual,
COM3 IRQ 10 IO as usual, COM4 IRQ 12 IO 0x2F0)
Both PCs are successfully running Linux 1.2.13 (Slakware 2.3) since 2
years.
During the last 3 weeks I installed Caldera Open Linux Standard 1.1 and
Slakware 3.2 (both employ kernel 2.0.29) and Suse Linux 5.0 (kernel
2.0.30) without any problems. That means: the 'all-purpose' boot
diskettes of these distributions started Linux successfully. And I
think, that the hardware described above is everything else than exotic.
In my personal view the claims, that Debian is a superior distribution,
do not fullfill.
I would like to hear some opions from the debian officials.
TIA and have a nice day.
Dieter
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