[1182] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: DPT & SCSI timeouts, Bus errors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chai Harjo)
Thu Dec 26 21:42:21 1996
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 13:26:59 +1100
From: Chai Harjo <c.harjo@student.anu.edu.au>
Reply-To: c.harjo@student.anu.edu.au
To: Petri T J Mattila <ptjmatti@cc.helsinki.fi>
CC: SCSI list <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
Petri T J Mattila wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have DPT2044W + RC4040 controller with 16Mb cache RAM,
> three Seagate Barracuda 4LP disks, configured to RAID-5.
> With raw device writes, I get "aborting command due to timeout"
> and "SCSI_ABORT_BUSY" error messages.
> Even mke2fs on any partition will produce those and
> eventually die with "Bus error". If I run
> "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 bs=1k", the machine starts
> to generate timeouts and eventually reboot without
> any further warning.
>
> The machine is a new Intel Tucson with 166MHz Pentium,
> 32Mb ECC memory, currently no other cards than DPT.
> It works well with other operating systems.
>
> About a week ago, Robert Shepard wrote about exactly the same problem,
> but I haven't seem any replys.
>
> Any comments, ideas, anything ??
>
> -- Petri
>
>
You can contact directly to the author of the DPT driver for Linux.
Michael Neuffer <neuffer@nomis.i-Connect.Net>
Chai Harjo
