From: Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>
To: Debian Bugs <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: gnumach hangs because of Linux 2.0.36 adaptec drivers
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:55:14 +0200 (CET)

Package: gnumach
Version: 1.1.90-2

[ Hello Gordon. This weekend I tested Marcus' cross-install at home and it
  worked great. Congratulations to everybody for all the hard work! ].

However, today I tried to do the same with the computer I have at work,
without success: The booting process hangs.

I think that the reason for this is that gnumach contains the "new"
adaptec drivers from Linux 2.0.36 (in fact, I can't install Debian 2.1
from scratch in my system because of this very reason).

If you could forward this upstream so that this is fixed in gnumach,
it would be great.

Thanks.

From: Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
To: 35970@bugs.debian.org, Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>
Subject: gnumach hangs because of Linux 2.0.36 adaptec drivers
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 15:05:58 +0200

Hello santiago,

I don't understand what happens.

> However, today I tried to do the same with the computer I have at work,
> without success: The booting process hangs.
>
> I think that the reason for this is that gnumach contains the "new"
> adaptec drivers from Linux 2.0.36 (in fact, I can't install Debian 2.1
> from scratch in my system because of this very reason).

Does the system at work have Adaptec SCSI or not? If not, I can of course
remove the adaptec driver from GNU Mach, or you can use the gnumach-lean
that I uploaded to alpha some time ago to bootstrap the system (only ide
driver). But if it has Adaptec, we need to up or downgrade the Adaptec
driver in GNU Mach to a different version.

Can you give more information?
Marcus

From: Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>
To: Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Cc: -email is unavailable-
Subject: Re: gnumach hangs because of Linux 2.0.36 adaptec drivers
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 18:18:22 +0200 (CET)

On Tue, 25 May 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> Hello santiago,
>
> I don't understand what happens.
>
> > However, today I tried to do the same with the computer I have at work,
> > without success: The booting process hangs.
> >
> > I think that the reason for this is that gnumach contains the "new"
> > adaptec drivers from Linux 2.0.36 (in fact, I can't install Debian 2.1
> > from scratch in my system because of this very reason).
>
> Does the system at work have Adaptec SCSI or not? If not, I can of course
> remove the adaptec driver from GNU Mach, or you can use the gnumach-lean
> that I uploaded to alpha some time ago to bootstrap the system (only ide
> driver). But if it has Adaptec, we need to up or downgrade the Adaptec
> driver in GNU Mach to a different version.

It's very simple:

• At home I don't have SCSI at all, and it works fine.

• At work I have an Adaptec SCSI, with which Debian 2.1 rescue floppy

does not work, and gnumach does not work either.

Because of this, I guess that the Linux 2.0.36 drivers in gnumach are the
"real" reason it does not work, but of course I can't be 100% sure.

Thanks.

From: -email is unavailable- (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
To: -email is unavailable-
Subject: Re: gnumach hangs because of Linux 2.0.36 adaptec drivers
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:26:32 -0400 (EDT)

I'd be happy to replace the driver in the gnumach source, but I'd need
advice on exactly what to do.  I take it the driver doesn't function
right in Linux either; by now there must be a fix, but I await advice
from someone who knows the details.


From: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
To: 35970@bugs.debian.org, Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>
Subject: Re: gnumach hangs because of Linux 2.0.36 adaptec drivers
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 19:47:29 +0300

Hi Santiago,

Can you reproduce #35970 with the latest gnumach packages?

regards,
guillem

From: Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>
To: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>, -email is unavailable-
Cc: GNU Hurd Maintainers <debian-hurd@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug #35970: gnumach hangs because of Linux 2.0.36 adaptec drivers
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 12:40:30 +0200 (CEST)

On Sat, 14 May 2005, Guillem Jover wrote:

> Hi Santiago,
>
> Can you reproduce #35970 with the latest gnumach packages?

I don't know, and it is going to be quite difficult for me to check, because
the computer is currently running woody as a server for a lot of people...