Re: SGI 1200 and the scsi/apic problem

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:09 23-11-2001 +0100, Matthijs van der Klip wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Several months ago I had trouble getting Release 1.0.1 to work on an SGI
> 1200 machine. I found several references to broken firmware of the Intel
> 440GX motherboard and a fix telling me to boot the kernel with the
> parameter 'apic'.
>
> Now this trick doesn't seem to work with release 1.0.2a. I get lots of
> scsi timeouts and can't get it to boot properly on an 1200. Does anyone
> have any ideas? Is the 'apic' parameter uninplemented in this new kernel?
> Am I convicted to use an older kernel?

Does the system boot properly without the apic option? A lot has happend 
between the 1.0.1 (2.4.3 kernel) and 1.0.2 (2.4.9 kernel). It might just 
work now or have a workaround implemented.

The scsi timeouts might also be related to the new style aic7xxx driver. 
Maybe someone from SGI which has experience with those machines can comment 
on this.

Cheers/Groetjes

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Seth
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