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Re: aic7xxx-5.1.x failure on 2.1.123
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Ledford)
Wed Oct 7 01:17:26 1998
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 23:11:45 -0500
From: Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net>
To: Claudiu Balciza <cbalciza@geocities.com>
CC: Linux SCSI <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
Claudiu Balciza wrote:
>
> I've been using 2.1.x kernels since 2.1.119 and the last one working for me
> is 2.1.122 (Digital Server 3200 - 2xPII 266/128MB/AIC7880 + 2x4GB Seagate
> drives)
> here's the 2.1.122 probing:
> --------------------------------------------------------
> (scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7880 Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 12/0
> (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
> (scsi0) BIOS enabled, IO Port 0x7000, IRQ 11
> (scsi0) IO Memory at 0xfebff000, MMAP Memory at 0xc8800000
> (scsi0) Resetting channel
> (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 413 instructions downloaded
> scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.0.20/3.2.4
> <Adaptec AIC-7880 Ultra SCSI host adapter>
> scsi : 1 host.
> (scsi0:0:-1:-1) Scanning channel for devices.
> Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST34371W Rev: 0702
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST34371W Rev: 0702
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
> Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-5701TA Rev: 0557
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
> scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 2 SCSI disks total.
> (scsi0:0:5:0) Synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset 8.
> Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.14
> (scsi0:0:0:0) Using wide (16 bit) transfers.
> (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 20.0MHz, offset 8.
> SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8388314 [4095 MB] [4.1 GB]
> (scsi0:0:1:0) Using wide (16 bit) transfers.
> (scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 20.0MHz, offset 8.
> SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8388314 [4095 MB] [4.1 GB]
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> the 2.1.123 hangs on SCSI (with or without the pre 15 patch)
> After the sequencer download it starts getting aborts due to timeout on
> every device
> Then it stops. Definitely.
> I would send you the output I could capture it.
> do you think any of the:
> aic7xxx=panic_on_abort
> aic7xxx=verbose:0x1ffff
> would help ?
Nope. These are most likely the interrupt problems that a few machines have
had since 2.1.122. I would look into the 2.1.125-prex kernels and see if
that fixes your problem.
--
Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net>
Opinions expressed are my own, but
they should be everybody's.
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