Re: APUS dosn't recognise my BlizzPPC-SCSI HDs

[Oliver R. <ol...@fu...>]

Hi Christoph,

On 06-Jun-03 18:22:33, Christoph Gutjahr wrote:

>> I think you need to add "nobats" (minus quotes) to the bootstrap
>> command-line, IIRC, to allow the BlizzPPC SCSI support to work.  At
>> least, that's what I use here, and everything is fine (my root partition
>> is on a SCSI drive).  I'm sure I remember reading that nobats was
>> required, but can't remember where.

> Thanks for the hint. I'm one step further now (it *does* recognise my
> drives), but a new problem appeared.
>
> The kernel recognises the drive(s), but it gets stuck in an endless loop
> as soon as it tries to "identify" the first drive in the chain. Lots of
> error messages
> (quote: "Duh? Bad things happening in the NCR driver"). It's not a
> problem with a specific HD, I tried both.

Hmmm... Can't say I've ever had that problem :(

> Could you tell me how you configured the node that your SCSI drive is
> connected to is configured in the BPPC early startup menu? I've got no

I'm not sure if these have any effect on LinuxAPUS, but I have both
the SCSI and NCR SCSI patches disabled (in the system section).  For
the SCSI section I have everything set to auto.  However, for the SCSI
IDs that I'm not using, I have manually set those all to NO LUN, so
those IDs aren't scanned - figured it might speed things up.

> idea about all those settings. What kernel parameters are you using?
> Thanks in advance.

I've absolutely no idea, sorry :(  I'm using one of the older kernels -
IIRC, it's the same one that was supplied on an Amiga Active CD-ROM
some time ago (possibly 2.2.10).  I've had nothing but problems with
the 2.4 kernels, so I just stick with the old one :)  I don't use
Linux much anyway - just occassional testing with Mozilla and Opera.

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