From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Riker Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 20:07:18 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Problem with QLogic Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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. PS: join #ia64Linux on irc.openprojects.net for live chat -- Tim Riker - http://rikers.org/ - short SIGs! All I need to know I could have learned in Kindergarten ... if I'd just been paying attention.