On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:27:14AM -0800, John Hawkes wrote:
> Have you seen a response to your email about the broken hardware in
> posix0? I know I'm interested in getting that system to work.
No email response but posix0 has shown other flaws in the past. Currently
they seem to be gone but it's probably only a question of time until they
return again.
I suspect in parts it might be a thermal problem. I had powered off posix0
over xmas. On the 26th it took 5 1/2 hours of repeated power cycling and
reseting before I the error messages went away. A few days before that
I had firmware error messages regarding one of the SCSI HBA's (self test
failed). IRIX was booting though but I wasn't able to access /dev/sdd from
either IRIX or Linux. And in August one of the bays (bottom right when
standing in front of the machine) didn't get powered up. Pretty fishy
system ...
Anyway, there is now a more or less well running Redhat 7.0 installation
on /dev/sde1. You need to use a fairly recent test11 kernel; older kernels
have bugs in their 32-bit compatibility code which doesn't properly work
for glibc 2.2 in older versions.
Ralf
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