Re: [Linux-ia64] Problem with QLogic

[Tim Riker <TimR@CalderaSystems.com>]

Uros,

I see your back at work after IDF. ;-) How dod your talk go?

What are you using to boot test7 with, lilo or eli? Just curious.

Uros Prestor wrote:
> 
> Holger Berger wrote:
> 
> > does the usage of BIOS 59 solve the SCSI timeout problems
> > or does it solve the problem that I can not access the QLogic BIOS?
> 
> No, it doesn't.  If you have a BugSur and you try entering Qlogic
> BIOS by pressing Alt-Q the system will hang.
> 
> > I read that usage of older ELI or lilo should also solve some sort of
> > SCSI timeout problems. It does not for our boxes...
> 
> If you get SCSI timeouts this usually means that IRQ routing setup is
> wrong.  Neither lilo nor eli incorporated full ACPI support yet.  The
> solution is to use 2.4.0-test7 kernel plus the latest IA-64 patch.  This
> patch has support for ACPI parsing which means that it should be able to
> correctly set up IRQ routing from the ACPI tables.  I have tested test7
> on a 2P BigSur with BIOS 60 and it works without problems.

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