Thanks a lot George.
I've tried the most recent 4-beta kernels (build on 28th of Jan.) and
they do work.
Then I updated to 4.0_Beta2 without any problems. Everything works fine.

Zafer.


2007/1/30, George Harvey <fr30@dial.pipex.com>:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:41:37 +0100
> "Zafer Aydogan" <zafer@aydogan.de> wrote:
>
> > hello list,
> >
> > I recently powered on my old indy r5000, running 1.6ZC and wanted to
> > update to current.
> > The problem is, that I can't netboot into current, neither 3.1, 3.0,
> > 2.0. But I can boot properly into 1.6:
> >
> [ snip ]
>
> There are SCSI issues with the 2.x and 3.x kernels. On my R5000
> Challenge S, I found that an old Seagate 1GB drive would work but any
> other drive that I tried resulted in a boot failure due to SCSI errors.
>
> The SCSI problem was fixed in -current around September / October last
> year and I have successfully run a kernel built from the 9th November
> snapshot on my box. A 4.0BETA kernel from early January (after the
> re-branch) also booted OK.
>
> I haven't tried a more recent -current kernel so I don't know if the
> cache error indicates a new bug or not. AFAIK, older kernels (pre 2.0 ?)
> didn't use the L2 cache so there is a possibility that a cache hardware
> fault wouldn't have been detected in 1.6 but would show up in a more
> recent kernel.
>
> George
>
>
>