[3297] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: scsi : aborting command due to timeout
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (root)
Thu Feb 12 07:03:33 1998
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 22:54:17 -0800 (PST)
From: root <root@fullof.blarney.org>
To: Umesh Soni <U.Soni@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <1432.887227292@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Umesh Soni wrote:
>
>
> >
> >> I am getting lots of these errors when running 4 consecutive bonnies
> >> (two bonnies on each hd -on seperate partitions) on my system,
> >> occasionally the system will completely hang when subjected to this
> >> torture test.
> >
> >Well finally someone else has the same problem. Mine however is timeouts
> >during a tape backup and not hard disk time outs. My hard drives seem to
> >be fine. No one has yet to answer my question however:
> >
>
>
> I have tried to pin this issue down a little. I've looked at a another
> similar vintage Gigabyte GA-586DX dual pentium motherboard -exactly the
> same thing ie. aic7xxx driver cannot detect a change in the high byte
> scsi termination (via the motherboard jumper).
>
> Now, unlesss the GA586DX/AIC7880 combination is broken, this looks
> like a driver issue.
>
> Looking into Doug Ledford's patched 5.0.5 aic7xxx driver I have made
> the following rather crude changes to force the AIC7880's high byte
> termination ON ... (I am of course assuming that the jumper is a
> mechanism for informing the driver to turn on high byte termination
> and that it does not in itself directly turn termination no/off)
>
> Can someone in the KNOW tell me if this is correct ? If so, perhaps
> the driver maintainers can look into this issue and provide a more
> elegant solution (ie have the driver correctly identify the state of
> the mobo jumper) :-)
Thank god someone realizes this. Thanks, and I hope someone is working on
it. This only started happening when I moved to 2.1.28+ kernels, and thus
even back to the stable stuff (later).
