Re: something got fixed in 2.0.36??

[Bob Taylor <brtaylor inreach com>]

In message <19981201043600.25303.qmail@hotmail.com>, "Designer 7" writes:
> I wonder if it is just me or what? Last night I upgraded to kernel 
> 2.0.36... and all of a sudden today, my alpha/miata is performing much 
> better. With 2.0.35 disk access was just incredibly slow... on a UW SCSI 
> Cheetah.... and now, it's not so slow anymore.... opening uncached files 
> are no longer slow.... was there a fix for the aic7xxx drivers??
> 
> In case anyone else had problems with SCSI disk access, try 2.0.36 and 
> let us know what happens...

Would be happy to! Unfortunately the kernel hangs after printing:

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. ????

This is an LX164 512M AlphaBIOS 5.60.

[root@ann /etc]# cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device  11, function  0:
    IDE interface: CMD 646 (rev 1).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 21.  Master Capable.  
Latency=32.  Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=4.
      I/O at 0x8000.
  Bus  0, device   9, function  0:
    SCSI storage controller: NCR 53c875 (rev 4).
      Medium devsel.  IRQ 19.  Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=17.Max 
Lat=64.
      I/O at 0x8800.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x9000000.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x9001000.
  Bus  0, device   8, function  0:
    Non-VGA device: Intel 82378IB (rev 67).
      Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  No bursts.  
  Bus  0, device   7, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905 100bTX (rev 0).
      Medium devsel.  IRQ 17.  Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=3.Max 
Lat=8.
      I/O at 0x9000.
  Bus  0, device   6, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905 100bTX (rev 0).
      Medium devsel.  IRQ 16.  Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=3.Max 
Lat=8.
      I/O at 0x9800.
  Bus  0, device   5, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: Matrox Millennium II (rev 0).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 18.  Master Capable.  
Latency=32.
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xa000000.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xb000000.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xb800000.

[root@ann /etc]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices: 
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: SEAGATE  Model: ST34501W         Rev: 0018
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
  Vendor: HP       Model: C1533A           Rev: A708
  Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
  Vendor: PIONEER  Model: CD-ROM DR-U06S   Rev: 1.05
  Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02

[root@ann /etc]# cat /proc/scsi/ncr53c8xx/*
General information:
  Chip NCR53C875, device id 0xf, revision id 0x4
  IO port address 0x8800, IRQ number 19
  Synchronous period factor 12, max commands per lun 4

Bob

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