Subject: RE: RS/6000 F50 sym53c8xx timeout problem
From: Stefan Schneider (stefan.schneider@comsat.com.ve)
Date: Fri Aug 25 2000 - 07:40:47 MDT
Have you installed all the latest APAR Fixes? There are known issues with
symbios controllers but if you download Dan Burcaw's 2.2.17pre-1 boot floppy
it should start w/o any problems and will let you install and compile a
2.2.15 kernel with stable symbios support.
S/Sch
----- Original Message -----
From: Chih-Chang Hsieh <cch@cc.kmu.edu.tw>
To: YDL-help-mailing-list <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 3:47 AM
Subject: RS/6000 F50 sym53c8xx timeout problem
> Hello!
>
> We have an IBM RS/6000 7025 F50 workstation, but fail to install
> YDL Linux (CS 1.2) on it.
> When I boot it with YDL floppy (Linux kernel is 2.2.15), it steps ok
> until fell into a resetting loop:
>
> SCSI host 0 abort (pid0) timeout - 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
> ... (repeated with new serial_number)
>
> We have tried: boot floppy:,\ZIMAGE sym53c8xx=safe:y,
> but still the same.
> It can be boot with AIX 4.1.2 under the same H/W.
> Has anyone encountered this problem?
> Thanks in advance for any suggestion!
>
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