HP LD Pro: Problems detecting devices.

[Javier Kohan]

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Whalin <gwhalin at numerix.com>
To: Javier Kohan <jkohan at adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>
Date: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: HP LD Pro: Problems detecting devices.


>Try running with the latest drivers at
>ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/testing/ \
>aic7xxx-5.1.0-pre7-2.0.35.patch.gz
>
>See if this helps any.  It should.


It did. Thank you very much !


>
>Greg
>--------------------
>Greg Whalin
>gwhalin at numerix.com
>
>On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Javier Kohan wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm trying to run Linux in a Hewlett Packard LD Pro, with:
>>
>> PPro 200 (one)
>> 128Mb RAM
>> 9G HD  (SCSI ID = 0 )
>> CDROM ( ID = 5 )
>> DAT       ( ID = 3 )
>> HP OEM EtherExpress 10/100 network card
>> 3C905 TX network card.
>>
>> At boot time, randomly detects, or not, the SCSI units, that is,
sometimes
>> detects all of then, somtimes only the HD ( I Initially had the HD at ID
1,
>> and then, most of times it was not detected ).
>>
>> I tried 2.0.34 and 2.1.112 with identical results. I also tried
configuring
>> the kernel to wait 15s after resetting the host.
>>
>> The diagnostic software tells me that the server is all right, and
>> previously the server had NT 4.0 and worked fine, and if I can't get
Linux
>> running, my boss will ask me to install NT again.
>> Please, save me ! :)
>>
>> Below is a dmesg of one of the few times that it detected all the
devices:
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>> ============
>>
>> Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
>> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
>> pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fd8e0
>> pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xf5d57
>> pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf6694
>> Probing PCI hardware.
>> Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 199.07 BogoMIPS
>> Memory: 127944k/131072k available (664k kernel code, 384k reserved, 2080k
>> data)
>> Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
>> NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
>> Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
>> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
>> Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
>> Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
>> Linux version 2.0.34 (root at brutus) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #2 Tue Aug 11
>> 21:31:34 ART 1998
>> Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
>> Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
>> tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
>> tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
>> PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed.
>> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
>> FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
>> (scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7880 Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 10/0
>> (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
>> (scsi0) BIOS disabled, IO Port 0xf800, IRQ 15
>> (scsi0) IO Memory at 0xfedff000, MMAP Memory at 0x8805000
>> (scsi0) Resetting channel
>> (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 413 instructions downloaded
>> scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.0.19/3.2.4
>>        <Adaptec AIC-7880 Ultra SCSI host adapter>
>> scsi : 1 host.
>> (scsi0:0:-1:-1) Scanning channel for devices.
>> (scsi0:0:0:0) Using wide (16 bit) transfers.
>> (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 20.0MHz, offset 8.
>>   Vendor: HP        Model: 9.10GB A 80-1220  Rev:
>>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>> Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
>>   Vendor: HP        Model: C1533A            Rev: A612
>>   Type:   Sequential-Access                  ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>> Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
>>   Vendor: TOSHIBA   Model: CD-ROM XM-5401TA  Rev: 3115
>>   Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
>> scsi : detected 1 SCSI tape 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk total.
>> SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17773524 [8678 MB] [8.7
>> GB]
>> eepro100.c:v0.99B 4/7/98 Donald Becker
linux-eepro100 at cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
>> eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet at 0xece0, 00:60:B0:67:25:CD, IRQ
>> 10.
>>   Board assembly 673610-001, Physical connectors present: RJ45
>>   Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
>>   General self-test: passed.
>>   Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
>>   Internal registers self-test: passed.
>>   ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x49caa8d6).
>>   Receiver lock-up workaround activated.
>> eepro100.c:v0.99B 4/7/98 Donald Becker
linux-eepro100 at cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
>> eth1: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xec40, 00:60:08:9d:80:f6, IRQ 11
>>   8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/NWay Autonegotiation
>> interface.
>>   MII transceiver found at address 24, status 7869.
>>   Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
>> 3c59x.c:v0.99E 5/12/98 Donald Becker
>> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
>> Partition check:
>>  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
>> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
>> Adding Swap: 130748k swap-space (priority -1)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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