UltraPenguin 1.1.9 update

UltraPenguin 1.1.9 update

[Jakub Jelinek]

Hi!

I've updated kernel in UltraPenguin distribution to 2.2.5 current, so that
1) SCSI/HME PCI cards are fully supported
2) HME PCI card interrupt problem is fixed
3) LEO console screen glitches are fixed
4) several sparc32 crashes and hangs fixed (e.g. glibc 2.1 should run well
   on sparc32 finally)

In this release, 64bit ELF application support is disabled (I guess none of
you is using 64bit binaries and it is a security hole at the moment), but
/usr/gnemul/sunos/ support is reenabled. Please let us know if you find any
problems.
The kernel has been updated both in rpms and in the install images.

I'd like to release UltraPenguin 1.2 shortly after this, so please test it
as much as possible if you can.
Packages still to be updated are gdb and XFree86 (to fix some FFB bugs and
add Leo/ZX support (I'm finishing last optimizations on leo I'd like to have
in UP1.2).
The CD has not bee updated yet, check the date before downloading it that is
has been updated already.

Enjoy yourselves and the distribution as well,
    Jakub
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Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz
Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University
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UltraLinux  |  http://ultra.linux.cz/  |  http://ultra.penguin.cz/
Linux version 2.2.5 on a sparc64 machine (3958.37 BogoMips)
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Re: UltraPenguin 1.1.9 update

[Malcolm Beattie]

Jakub Jelinek writes:
> I've updated kernel in UltraPenguin distribution to 2.2.5 current, so that
> 1) SCSI/HME PCI cards are fully supported

Indeed, "insmod qlogicisp" now seems to work fine on my Ultra5 with
SunSwift SCSI/HME PCI card. Many thanks to DaveM who you said, I
believe, did the PCI port recently. I don't have any disks to try on
it immediately but I've a 6 x 10K RPM 9GB multipack arriving RSN
(ordered a few weeks ago) which I can hook up and run some benchmarks
on. I'm putting the disks on a new web server in a couple of weeks or
so but I'll have a little window to run any tests/benchmarks if
people want any done. Does this 2.2.5 kernel have Mingo's new RAID
code or is it still the old stuff? From the presence of the
raidtools-0.90 RPM and the "raid5: using high-speed VIS checksum
routine" boot time message I'd guess it's the new (which I'm already
using in production on a number of machines). If so, I'll do some
testing to see how Ultra5+SunSwift benchmarks against PII+BT958 with
the same disk array for various RAID combinations (and maybe even
against Solaris+Solstice Disk suite on the same (SPARC) hardware.

Thanks for the 2.2.5 update, by the way, it works fine.

--Malcolm

-- 
Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>
Unix Systems Programmer
Oxford University Computing Services

Re: UltraPenguin 1.1.9 update

[pau]

On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Malcolm Beattie wrote:

> Jakub Jelinek writes:
> > I've updated kernel in UltraPenguin distribution to 2.2.5 current, so that
> > 1) SCSI/HME PCI cards are fully supported
> 
> Indeed, "insmod qlogicisp" now seems to work fine on my Ultra5 with

I've been able to insert the module and see the Qlogic card, but now I
don't know which device to access.

I've tried sd1 to sdg and it's not there.

My dmesg is:

scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - revision 3.1h
scsi1 : ncr53c8xx - revision 3.1h
..........
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
.........
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
.........
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
........
........
qlogicisp : new isp1020 revision ID (5)
scsi2 : QLogic ISP1020 SCSI on PCI bus 80 device 10 irq 6313472 base
0xfffff9fe02000c00
scsi : 3 hosts.

Any help?
Pau

Re: UltraPenguin 1.1.9 update

[pau]

> > Indeed, "insmod qlogicisp" now seems to work fine on my Ultra5 with

> I've been able to insert the module and see the Qlogic card, but now I
> don't know which device to access.

Sorry. It works!!!
I made a mistake. I can access my external RAID5 arrays.

Thx
Pau