Subject: Re: RS/6000 F50 sym53c8xx timeout problem
From: Jonathan Belson (jon@dookie.demon.co.uk)
Date: Fri Aug 25 2000 - 01:27:11 MDT
>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?
Heh heh. Yes, this is a well-known problem. My solution was
to install Debian.
-- C-YA Jon
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