[6059] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Terrible, sudden SCSI disk errors II
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bradley M. Kuhn)
Wed Mar 10 22:04:13 1999
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:52:33 -0500
From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn@ebb.org>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Mail-Followup-To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903101249050.25040-100000@shell.nacs.net>; from Michael Stutz on Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 12:57:22PM -0500
Thus spoke Michael Stutz:
> I took Leonard Zubkoff's advice and upgraded the firmware on my BusLogic
> to 5.06J, and the problems I'd been having with my SCSI drive seemed to go
> away -- several "e2fsck -fc /dev/sda1" produced no errors, and I was able
> to store data on the drive without problem -- but it looks like I spoke
> too soon. When I started really using the drive, and used about 1GB of
> disk space, the errors came back.
Have you checked that your PCI BIOS settings aren't causing the problem? I
recently had similar problems, and it turned out to be problems with the
BIOS effecting the PCI bus.
I would upgrade to the newest BIOS on your motherboard and SCSI card, and
then try the card/drive with all the PCI BIOS enhancements turned off.
FWIW, sometime next week, I am going to post an extensive message to this
list on how I solved the problem I had. I think it may help others with
very fast PCI SCSI cards.
--
Bradley M. Kuhn | bkuhn@ebb.org | http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn
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