[3932] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: problems with NCR53c875-0 driver & RAID
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Garloff)
Fri May 15 21:13:25 1998
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 12:12:40 +0200
From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@kg1.ping.de>
To: Dan Jacobs <dan@caliginous.com>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Cc: linux-raid@vger.rutgers.edu
Mail-Followup-To: Dan Jacobs <dan@caliginous.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-raid@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980511165231.21172D-300000@apollo.virtual-pc.com>; from Dan Jacobs on Mon, May 11, 1998 at 04:53:24PM +0100
On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 04:53:24PM +0100, Dan Jacobs wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm having problems with my NCR53c875-0 drivers.
> >
> > BTW, I hope its ok to cross post this one.
> >
> > They work fine on 2.0.31 kernel & my 2.1.98 kernel but I get errors with
> > my 2.0.33 kernel (BTW all are on the same machine, I use LILO to choose
> > which to boot).
> >
> > Attached are copies of the output of running dmesg on kernel 2.0.31 and
> > kernel 2.0.33. you can see in the later that a problem occurs when the
> > drive tries to copy script framents into the on board RAM...
I cannot see any problem ...
> > Any advice would be appriciated. I am trying to get software RAID1 going
> > and this is getting in the way because I can't fdisk my second 9gb drive
> > (sdc1).
I don't see any evidence for that. Sorry.
> > Linux version 2.0.31 (root@porky.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1
> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> > ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 1, device 4, function 0
> > ncr53c8xx: PCI_COMMAND_INVALIDATE not set, WRITE AND INVALIDATE not
> > used
> > ncr53c8xx: 53c875 detected
> > ncr53c875-0: rev=0x03, base=0x41001000, io_port=0x7000, irq=10
> > ncr53c875-0: ID 7, Fast-20, Parity Checking
> > ncr53c875-0: on-board RAM at 0x41000000
> > ncr53c875-0: restart (scsi reset).
> > ncr53c875-0: copying script fragments into the on-board RAM ...
> > scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - revision 2.4a
> > scsi : 1 host.
> > Vendor: QUANTUM Model: XP34550W Rev: LXY4
> > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> > Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST39173W Rev: 4290
> > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
> > Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST39173W Rev: 4290
> > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 8, lun 0
> > ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: SLOW WIDE SCSI 10.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 16)
> > SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8890760 [4341 MB]
> > [4.3 GB]
> > sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
> > ncr53c875-0-<4,0>: SLOW WIDE SCSI 10.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 15)
> > SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17783240 [8683 MB]
> > [8.7 GB]
> > sdb: sdb1
> > ncr53c875-0-<8,0>: SLOW WIDE SCSI 10.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 15)
> > SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17783240 [8683 MB]
> > [8.7 GB]
> > sdc: sdc1
> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> > Trying to unmount old root ... okay
> > Adding Swap: 78672k swap-space (priority -1)
>
>
> > Linux version 2.0.33 (root@rimmer) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Fri May 8
> > md driver 0.36.5 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
> > md: starting 12 kernel threads
> > raid1 personality registered
> > ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 1, device 4, function 0
> > ncr53c8xx: PCI_COMMAND_INVALIDATE not set, WRITE AND INVALIDATE not
> > used
> > ncr53c8xx: 53c875 detected
> > ncr53c875-0: rev=0x03, base=0x41001000, io_port=0x7000, irq=10
> > ncr53c875-0: ID 7, Fast-20, Parity Checking
> > ncr53c875-0: on-board RAM at 0x41000000
> > ncr53c875-0: restart (scsi reset).
> > ncr53c875-0: copying script fragments into the on-board RAM ...
> > PPA: unable to initialise controller at 0x378, error 1
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This message is originating from the PPA driver (Parallel port SCSI driver).
No problem with that, unless you have a ParallelPort ZIP drive. Then you
should be able to initialize it.
> > scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - revision 2.4a
> > scsi : 1 host.
> > Vendor: QUANTUM Model: XP34550W Rev: LXY4
> > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> > Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST39173W Rev: 4290
> > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
> > Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST39173W Rev: 4290
> > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 8, lun 0
> > scsi : detected 3 SCSI disks total.
> > ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: SLOW WIDE SCSI 10.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 16)
> > SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8890760 [4341 MB]
> > [4.3 GB]
> > ncr53c875-0-<4,0>: SLOW WIDE SCSI 10.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 15)
> > SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17783240 [8683 MB]
> > [8.7 GB]
> > ncr53c875-0-<8,0>: SLOW WIDE SCSI 10.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 15)
> > SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17783240 [8683 MB]
> > [8.7 GB]
> > Partition check:
> > sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
> > sdb: sdb1
> > sdc: sdc1
> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> > Adding Swap: 78672k swap-space (priority -1)
--
Kurt Garloff, Dortmund
<K.Garloff@ping.de>
PGP key on http://student.physik.uni-dortmund.de/homepages/garloff
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