Is IRIX6.5.17 not working with Phobos G130? - SGI
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I've been running IRIX6.5.16m on my ChallengeS for a long time
and thought it was time to upgrade. I could only go to 6.5.17m
since I haven't got access to higher (yet), but I thought it was
better than ...
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Is IRIX6.5.17 not working with Phobos G130?
Hi,
I've been running IRIX6.5.16m on my ChallengeS for a long time
and thought it was time to upgrade. I could only go to 6.5.17m
since I haven't got access to higher (yet), but I thought it was
better than nothing.
Upgrade seem to work fine. When it's time for autobuild, I get
error messages which refers to 'gfe...' device and autobuild aborts.
I can start my system, 'versions' shows IRIX6.5.17m software
installed but 'uname -R' still shows IRIX6.5.16m.
Now I have learned though that I shouldn't fix what ain't broken :-)
I tried to restore my backup but I had trouble with /proc and
/proc/pinfo and 'killall' so that didn't work either. I just kept saying
'can't determine who you are' or something like that. Eventually
I cleaned the harddrive an installed everything from scratch up
to IRIX6.5.16m.
Machine spec is R5000@180, 256Mb, Mezzanine and Phobos
G130. There was a FDDI card in the ChallengeS before if that
could matter. The FDDI drivers are still installed but FDDI is
removed from netif.options.
Have anyone else encountered this problem? Is it fixed in later
IRIXes?
regards
Bjorn
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Re: Is IRIX6.5.17 not working with Phobos G130?
Hi Bjorn!
> Have anyone else encountered this problem? Is it fixed in later
> IRIXes?
Yes, this is a known problem of the Phobos-driver, not from
IRIX. But the bug in the driver is not - and will not be -
fixed, so i use this workaround: Un-installing the Phobos-
drivers before the OS-Upgrade, install the upgrade, then
re-install the Phobos-driver. This worked for me since 6.5.15.
But it seems i will have to do this procedure only two times
again... support for indy will be dropped after 6.5.22. 
Cheers,
Michael
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Re: Is IRIX6.5.17 not working with Phobos G130?
"Bjorn" wrote in message
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> "Michael Schmidt" skrev i meddelandet
> news:3F2FD9C0.9446BA45@machtnix.net...
> > But it seems i will have to do this procedure only two times
> > again... support for indy will be dropped after 6.5.22.
> >
> Thank you Michael, I will try this way of upgrading. My
> Dev/Sup account will be fixed soon, then I try again.
> I agree it's sad that these older machines won't be supported
> anymore. The list included all models that I have :-(
>
hum... IIRC "unsupported" doesnt necessarily mean "doesnt work
together", I think. It may become this way in the future, but I'd bet
6.5.x would still work on Indy for a couple of realeases after that.
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Re: Is IRIX6.5.17 not working with Phobos G130?
"Michael Schmidt" skrev i meddelandet
news:3F2FD9C0.9446BA45@machtnix.net...
> Hi Bjorn!
>
> > Have anyone else encountered this problem? Is it fixed in later
> > IRIXes?
>
> Yes, this is a known problem of the Phobos-driver, not from
> IRIX. But the bug in the driver is not - and will not be -
> fixed, so i use this workaround: Un-installing the Phobos-
> drivers before the OS-Upgrade, install the upgrade, then
> re-install the Phobos-driver. This worked for me since 6.5.15.
> But it seems i will have to do this procedure only two times
> again... support for indy will be dropped after 6.5.22.
>
Hello Michael,
I've successfully upgraded my ChallangeS to 6.5.21m now. Thank you.
/Bjorn
