Re: alpha performance

I've been running my Alpha Server 800 - 500Mhz ev56 for a little over a year
on the Gentoo 1.4 rc1 liveCD.
I'm up to the linux-2.6.10-rc1 kernel.  (yeah they fixed the OEM DAC960
problem natively and the io/ref problem)

I agree that I've not successfully managed to get X running locally on the
host.  (Tried a variety of video cards).

I also have an annoyance with the qlogic 1020 ISP drivers.  I've tried both
the "known" broken qlogicisp module and the qla1280 driver with the st
modules.

For some reason after a couple of days the tape devices become unavailable
to the system.  Also, attempting to unload the kernel module fails and hangs
the session on which the rmmod was attempted.

Jan 15 11:53:06 alpha-omega scsi(0:0): Resetting SCSI BUS
Jan 15 11:53:06 alpha-omega scsi0 : QLogic QLA1040 PCI to SCSI Host Adapter
Jan 15 11:53:06 alpha-omega Firmware version:  7.65.00, Driver version 3.25
Jan 15 11:53:06 alpha-omega Vendor: SONY      Model: SDT-9000          Rev:
0123
Jan 15 11:53:06 alpha-omega Type:   Sequential-Access                  ANSI
SCSI revision: 02
Jan 15 11:53:06 alpha-omega scsi(0:0:0:0): Sync: period 10, offset 12
Jan 15 11:53:06 alpha-omega Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id
0, lun 0
Jan 15 11:53:06 alpha-omega st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B), max
page reachable by HBA 196582
Jan 15 11:53:06 alpha-omega Vendor: IBM       Model: DCHS09F  CLAR09   Rev:
5353
Jan 15 11:53:06 alpha-omega Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI
SCSI revision: 02
Jan 15 11:53:06 alpha-omega scsi(0:0:2:0): Sync: period 10, offset 12,
Tagged queuing: depth 255
Jan 15 11:53:06 alpha-omega SCSI device sda: 17796078 512-byte hdwr sectors
(9112 MB)
Jan 15 11:53:06 alpha-omega sda: asking for cache data failed
Jan 15 11:53:06 alpha-omega sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Jan 15 11:53:06 alpha-omega SCSI device sda: 17796078 512-byte hdwr sectors
(9112 MB)
Jan 15 11:53:06 alpha-omega SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
Jan 15 11:53:06 alpha-omega /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0: p1 p4 p5
Jan 15 11:53:06 alpha-omega Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id
2, lun 0
Jan 15 11:53:06 alpha-omega qla1280: QLA1040 found on PCI bus 0, dev 12
Jan 15 11:53:06 alpha-omega scsi(1:0): Resetting SCSI BUS
Jan 15 11:53:06 alpha-omega scsi1 : QLogic QLA1040 PCI to SCSI Host Adapter
Jan 15 11:53:06 alpha-omega Firmware version:  7.65.00, Driver version 3.25
Jan 15 11:53:06 alpha-omega Vendor: Quantum   Model: DLT4000           Rev:
CD50
Jan 15 11:53:06 alpha-omega Type:   Sequential-Access                  ANSI
SCSI revision: 02

Brian Parkhurst
www.pyrobrian.com
brianp-at-spamcop-dot-net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <[email protected]>
To: "Gabriel M. Beddingfield" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 3:32 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] alpha performance


> <snip>
> >
> > 3. Installing gentoo -- I had to use an old liveCD (like gentoo 1.4 or
> > something).  If 2004.3 (or whatever's the latest) doesn't boot for you,
try
> > it.  There's also a "jumpstart" disc out there somewhere.  It's geared
toward
> > installing RedHat/SuSe... but if you run into trouble it will be handy
in
> > diagnosing your problem.  If you get *any* gentoo disc booted, still go
ahead
> > and use a current stage/portage tarball.  However, you'll have to work
around
> > a few missing commands that are in the current Handbook.  (E.g.
mirrorselect
> > will be gone, you'll have to select mirrors by hand.)
> >
> I'm a bit curious about this.. :) I know 2004.3 was foobared but any
> boot problems should have been fixed with the 2004.3-r1 livecd that was
> available shortly after the original 2004.3 release.
>
> If there's any other problems I'd appreciate you filing a bug at
> http://bugs.gentoo.org so I can fix it in future livecds.
>
> > 6. 2.4 kernels are still recommended.
> We're moving to 2.6 kernels which works beautifully on most systems - a
> few systems still seems to have problems with 2.6 kernels. The 2005.0
> livecd will have both 2.6 and 2.4 kernels for this reason.
>
> Regards,
> Bryan Ã~stergaard
> Gentoo/Alpha release coordinator
>
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