Utter, total success on D330 (HP 9000/813) with 256MB RAM, dmesg output follows: peter@ganymede:~$ dmesg Linux version 2.4.17-32 (root@paer) (gcc version 3.0.4) #1 Sat Mar 16 17:09:00 MST 2002 FP[0] enabled: Rev 1 Model 15 The 32-bit Kernel has started... Determining PDC firmware type: System Map. model 00005130 00000481 00000000 00000000 77afcdfa 100000f0 00000004 000000ba 000000ba vers 00000008 CPUID vers 15 rev 8 (0x000001e8) model 9000/813/D330 Total Memory: 256 Mb pagetable_init On node 0 totalpages: 65536 zone(0): 65536 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda2 HOME=/ console=ttyS0 TERM=vt102 palo_kernel=2/boot/vmlinux Console: colour dummy device 160x64 Calibrating delay loop... 106.49 BogoMIPS Memory: 254996k available Dentry-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Searching for devices... Two devices have hardware path 8. Please file a bug with HP. In the meantime, you could try rearranging your cards. Found devices: 1. Phantom PseudoBC GSC+ Port (7) at 0xffc00000 [8], versions 0x504, 0x0, 0x0 2. Bluefish Add-on FW-SCSI (4) at 0xfff84000 [8/4], versions 0x13, 0x1, 0x89 3. UL 550 Lasi Core BA (11) at 0xffd00000 [8/16], versions 0x2f, 0x0, 0x81, additional addresses: 0xffd0c000 0xffc00000 4. UL 550 Core Centronics (10) at 0xffd02000 [8/16/0], versions 0x2f, 0x0, 0x74, additional addresses: 0xffd01000 0xffd03000 5. UL 550 Lasi Core RS-232 (10) at 0xffd05000 [8/16/4], versions 0x2f, 0x0, 0x8c 6. UL 550 Core SCSI (10) at 0xffd06000 [8/16/5], versions 0x2f, 0x0, 0x82 7. UL 350 Core LAN (802.3) (10) at 0xffd07000 [8/16/6], versions 0x2f, 0x0, 0x8a 8. UL 550 Core PS/2 Port (10) at 0xffd08000 [8/16/7], versions 0x2f, 0x0, 0x84 9. UL 550 Core PS/2 Port (10) at 0xffd08100 [8/16/8], versions 0x2f, 0x0, 0x84 10. UL 550 Core PC Floppy (10) at 0xffd0a000 [8/16/10], versions 0x2f, 0x0, 0x83 11. UL 550 Core Wax BA (11) at 0xffe00000 [8/20], versions 0x31, 0x0, 0x8e 12. UL 550 Wax Core RS-232 (10) at 0xffe02000 [8/20/2], versions 0x31, 0x0, 0x8c 13. UL 550 Wax EISA BA (11) at 0xfc000000 [8/20/5], versions 0x31, 0x0, 0x90, additional addresses: 0xffc88000 14. UL L2 160 (813/D220,D320) (0) at 0xfffbe000 [62], versions 0x513, 0x0, 0x4 15. Memory (1) at 0xfffbf000 [63], versions 0x80, 0x0, 0x9 CPU(s): 1 x PA7300LC (PCX-L2) at 160.000000 MHz Lasi version 0 at 0xffd00000 found. LED display at ffd0c000 registered Wax at 0xffe00000 found. Wax: HIL Keyboard-NMI registered. Wax EISA Adapter found at 0xfc000000 EISA EEPROM at 0xffc88000 Enumerating EISA bus EISA slot 1 a configured board was not detected ( expected ___FFFF) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Enabled soft power switch (polling mode, io=0xf0140000). Starting kswapd Journalled Block Device driver loaded parport_init_chip: initialize bidirectional-mode. parport0: PC-style at 0xffd02800, irq 88 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled ttyS00 at iomem 0xffd05800 (irq = 90) is a 16550A ttyS01 at iomem 0xffe02800 (irq = 121) is a 16550A PS/2 keyboard port at 0xffd08000 (irq 69) found, no device attached. PS/2 psaux port at 0xffd08100 (irq 69) found, no device attached. lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). Generic RTC Driver v1.02 05/27/1999 Sam Creasey (sammy@oh.verio.com) block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 6144K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Found i82596 at 0xffd07000, IRQ 87 eth0: 82596 at 0xffd07000, 08 00 09 AF 93 A7 IRQ 87. 82596.c $Revision: 1.28 $ SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 zalon_scsi_callback: Zalon vers field is 0x1, IRQ 34 ncr53c8xx: 53c720 detected ncr53c720-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking, Differential scsi0 : ncr53c8xx-3.4.3b-20010512 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST34371W Rev: HPM2 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST34371W Rev: HPM2 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST34371W Rev: HPM2 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 53c700: Version 2.6 By James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com scsi1: 53c710 rev 2 scsi1 : LASI SCSI 53c700 scsi1: (0:0) Synchronous at offset 8, period 100ns Vendor: HP Model: C1533A Rev: AN01 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 scsi1: (2:0) Synchronous at offset 8, period 236ns Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-5401TA Rev: 1036 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 st: Version 20011103, bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max init. bufs 4, s/g segs 16 Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 8, lun 0 Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 9, lun 0 ncr53c720-0-<5,*>: FAST-10 WIDE SCSI 20.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 8) SCSI device sda: 8388314 512-byte hdwr sectors (4295 MB) Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 ncr53c720-0-<8,*>: FAST-10 WIDE SCSI 20.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 8) SCSI device sdb: 8388314 512-byte hdwr sectors (4295 MB) sdb: sdb1 sdb2 ncr53c720-0-<9,*>: FAST-10 WIDE SCSI 20.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 8) SCSI device sdc: 8388314 512-byte hdwr sectors (4295 MB) sdc: sdc1 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 sr0: scsi-1 drive Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 sticonsole_init: searching for STI ROMs BUG: Skipping previously registered driver: sti (native) md: linear personality registered as nr 1 md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2 md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3 md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4 raid5: measuring checksumming speed 8regs : 142.400 MB/sec 8regs_prefetch: 142.400 MB/sec 32regs : 198.000 MB/sec 32regs_prefetch: 198.000 MB/sec raid5: using function: 32regs_prefetch (198.000 MB/sec) md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem. EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: sd(8,2): orphan cleanup on readonly fs ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 207174 ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 79705 ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 63750 ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 270924 ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 239257 EXT3-fs: sd(8,2): 5 orphan inodes deleted EXT3-fs: recovery complete. EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. NOT FREEING INITMEM (383k) Adding Swap: 498844k swap-space (priority -1) EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.16, 02 Dec 2001 on sd(8,2), internal journal kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.16, 02 Dec 2001 on sd(8,3), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.16, 02 Dec 2001 on sd(8,18), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.16, 02 Dec 2001 on sd(8,33), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. eth0: link ok. SysRq : HELP : loglevel0-8 reBoot tErm kIll saK killalL showMem showPc unRaw Sync showTasks Unmount