[87] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Need help with booting from big SCSI disk
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Doolittle - Sun Parallel Open )
Tue Feb 28 12:15:54 1995
From: rad@via.East.Sun.COM ( Bob Doolittle - Sun Parallel Open Systems)
To: koop@erm1.u-strasbg.fr (Felix A. Koop)
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 09:02:30 -0500 (EST)
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9502281313.A22653-0100000@erm1> from "Felix A. Koop" at Feb 28, 95 01:14:08 pm
Actually, it would appear that the SCSI-HOWTO is in error. Although it
claims that the problem was fixed in .99.14k, we saw the problem at
1.0.9. Switching to a 1.1.50 kernel made the problem disappear.
>
> On Mon, 27 Feb 1995, Bob Doolittle - Sun Parallel Open Systems wrote:
>
> > When I configure my drive for unit 1, (the second SCSI drive), I get the
> > "interrupt received but no mailbox" message, and I can't see any SCSI
> > devices. In the SCSI howto, this is a known problem with kernels
> > earlier than .99.14k. Since I am supposedly running a 1.0.9 kernel,
> > why do I still see this message? I don't think I want to disable
> > extended translation on this drive (because then dos can't see my large
> > DOS partition at the beginning of it). Any ideas?
>
> I don't know if it is related but I had the same message on a PCI-
> Motherboard where I had one empty pci-slot with the same interrupt
> attached than the 1542CF. After disabling the interrupt on the pci-
> side of the board, all worked fine.
>
> Greetings
>
> Felix A. Koop (Felix.Koop@ensps.u-strasbg.fr)
>
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