Hallo, my name is Erik Adler, from Germany. I have a Alpha Server System "Takara" from Flexor. >From SRM: ___________________________________________________________________________ FORCE Computers FLEXOR A164/500 DIGITAL 21164 PICMG SBC 5/500 Firmware SRM Console: V5.7-3 PALcode: OpenVMS PALcode V1.21-7, Digital UNIX PALcode V1.23-9 System SROM: V1.1 Prozessor and Core Logic DECchip (tm) 21164A (rev 2) 500Mhz DECchip (tm) 21172 CIA ASIC Memory 512 Mb of System memory 2 Mb of bcache 96 kb of scache Interrupt Accelerator Support primary PCI bus 2 accelerated backplane PCI busses ___________________________________________________________________________ Peripherie Chips: PCI to ISA - Intel SIO 82378 PCI Bridge Bus 0 to 1 - DECchip 21052-AA PCI Bridge Bus 0 to 2 - DECchip 21052-AA Network - Intel EtherExpress (old: DECchip 21041) SCSI - Symbios 810 ___________________________________________________________________________ The Kernel above 2.4 works fine (2.2.22 on Debian; 2.2.17 on Red Hat). The Kernel 2.4.27 works, without my SCSI-Controller (NCR53c810), i have no HDD or CDROM. The old ncr53c8xx Driver have a timeout, the new (Sym 2.0) have a loop with timeout. The Kernel 2.2.x have IRQ 44 for SCSI and works, the Kernel 2.4.x says IRQ 45 and a INTA Problem and makes trouble. Erik Adler -- +++ GMX DSL Premiumtarife 3 Monate gratis* + WLAN-Router 0,- EUR* +++ Clevere DSL-Nutzer wechseln jetzt zu GMX: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html