Dell Precision 650 MPT SCSI Not Working

[Regan Sisson]

Well if it wasn't for bad luck I wouldn't have any I can't stand this Dell
anymore. I have tried everything rebuilding linux.2, the buildimages,
everything and this thing will not work properly. All I ever get is
"uncompressing and Loading ZENworks Imaging. Please wait...

invalid compressed format (err = 2)
-- System Halted
and when I did actually get the kernel to boot the USB keyboard wouldn't
work. There are so many different articles explaining how to rebuild the
images but everytime I do that I get the invalid compressed format (err
=2) --System Halted message again.

I am compressing it the same way I always have "gzip -9c" I have tried all
the development linux.2's and so on.. So I ask does anyone have the linux.1,
linux.2, bootcd.iso with scsi support for the mptbase and mptscsih drivers.

I have always added my own drivers with no problems but this just will not
work for me.

PS. does anyone have an idea why I would get the compression error all the
time nothing has changed I am using the same box I always have, that worked
in the past and what TID or article should I go by to rebuild the images.

Thanks ahead

Regan

[Jamie Glendinning]

Hi Regan

i'm sure you've tried this... i don't have full history on the thread
but...

I have had lots of problems adding to the ir4 linux.2

I managed to get it working at least once! by creating a new blank
initrd(linux.2)

by doing :

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 of=newlinux.2 count=32768
mkfs.minix newlinux.2

then mounting the old linux.2 as you would to add the drivers but run

cp -adf /mnt/org.linux.2/* /mnt/new.linux.2
(n.b this cmdline is from memory so might need a wee tad tweeking to get
things accross nicely.)

then add your new drivers.

then zip it up using your preferred gzip command.
I tend to use
gzip -v9c newlinux.2 > linux.2.gz

then copy the linux.2.gz to a new location as linux.2 and test.

no guarantees but it might be worth a go.

i also find that this is quite good to do anyway as your linux.2 generally
comes out smaller than the origional. which is nice.

I got the info on doing the above steps from the novel linux patch type
thing (zendist-4.0-p1.tgz)
inside here there is a file that the scripts use to create a new initrd
(..\zendist-4.0-p1\build\bootdisk\mkinitrd.s)
worth having a look at. maybe.

have fun

jamie

>>> Regan Sisson<rsi...@georgianc.on.ca> 17/08/04 19:48:40 >>>

[Regan Sisson]

Thanks I will try this for sure, thank so much for your help

Regan
"Jamie Glendinning" <Jamie_Glendinning@en_-NOSPAM-_gl.co.uk> wrote in
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[jhof...@oceaneering.nospam.org]

>
> then add your new drivers.
>

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>
> jamie

Did you have to complie the drivers yourself, or did you find working LSI
MPT Ultra320 drivers out there that work? Either way, is there any chance
you can make them available to the rest of us poor slobs trying to get this
working?

Thanks,
Jim