[plug] [ot] Alpha ethernet

[Cameron Patrick]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:36:23AM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
| In message <20031209023338.GA11156 at erdos.home>
| on Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:33:38AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
| > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:23:42PM +0800, Harry McNally wrote:
| > Currently grappling with a SCSI controller that doesn't like 2.4.x
| > kernels and a 2.2.x kernel that doesn't support Realtek cards :-(
| 
| Is there a nuance that is different from "a 2.4.x kernel that
| doesn't support the SCSI controller or Realtek cards"?

Yes - 2.4.18 (at least claims to) support Realtek cards.  The 2.2.20
kernel does not.

2.4.x also has has three (!) different drivers which claim to support
the SCSI card.  The one that worked with 2.2.20 ends up hanging the
machine, looping infinitely with errors like:

scsi0 : sym53c8xx-1.7.3c-20010512
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 0x12 00 00 00 ff 00
sym53c8xx_abort: pid=0 serial_number=1 serial_number_at_timeout=1
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
sym53c8xx_reset: pid=0 reset_flags=2 serial_number=1 serial_number_at_timeout=1
[...]

I've yet to try the other drivers - a kernel compile takes a few hours
on the alpha.  If I can get the 100Mbps ethernet going I'll probably give
up on the SCSI entirely, the hard drive in there only goes at ~5 MB/sec
anyway.

Cameron.