tlug: Sparc Linux

[Frank Bennett <bennett@example.com>]

Dear all,

Late last year, I ran into a snag while trying to get Coda working on a
RedHat 5.1 Sparc Linux box here.  Chris' suggestion that RedHat Sparc
Linux is not all it might be, together with the nature of the failure
we're experiencing, leads me to suspect that Linux, not Coda, is the
culprit.

I wanted to put the big Coda data partition and the filesystem's data
segment (about 5% of partition space, or something like that) on an
external 4-gig SCSI drive.  I can do most of the build okay, but in the
final stages of setup, the SCSI chain hangs, then resets itself.  After
this point nothing seems to work correctly. 

The SCSI cable is Wide SCSI at one (machine) end, Ultra-wide SCSI at the
other (external disk) end.  The disk unit is terminated with an active
terminator as per Sun's spec in the manual.

This isn't much of an error report, I know, but as a general question, are
there grounds for believing that the Linux SCSI drivers in RH Linux 5.1 
are flakey?  Or is it reckless to run from Wide to Ultra-wide SCSI
cable connectors?

I'm wavering now on whether to shift the Coda stuff over to an Intel box
and start over again (now would be the time, since the upgrade will
require a reinstall anyway).  Would that be the right move?

Cheers,
-- 
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Frank G Bennett, Jr         @@
Faculty of Law, Nagoya Univ () email: bennett@example.com
Tel: +81[(0)52]789-2239     () WWW:   http://rumple.soas.ac.uk/~bennett/

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