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Asking a favor. Please forward message to the linux-scsi list. (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Higgins)
Tue Sep 19 19:18:59 1995
From: chris@homenet.ie (Chris Higgins)
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 17:31:50 +0100 (BST)
Forwarded message:
> From buffalo.boulder.qms.com!tom Tue Sep 19 17:16:56 1995
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 10:18:11 -0600
> From: tom@buffalo.boulder.qms.com (Tom Mullin)
> Message-Id: <9509191618.AA03408@otter.>
> To: chrish@horizon.ie
> Subject: Asking a favor. Please forward message to the linux-scsi list.
>
> Chris,
>
> I don't seem to be able to send mail to the linux-scsi list. The mail
> comes back with cryptic error messages.
>
> Could you forward this mail to the list for me?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom Mullin (tpm@netcom.com -or- tom@boulder.qms.com)
>
>
> -- included email --
> From: tpm@netcom.com (Tom Mullin)
> To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: PCMCIA bus toaster/AHA152x SCSI panic
>
> I have a midwest micro elite 486/75 mhz and a Media Vision SCSI II
> PCMCIA card. I am using an Archive 1/4 inch tape drive.
>
> After some heavy duty reads/writes to tape, the process writing
> the data goes into an "uninterruptible sleep". I enabled debugging in
> the aha152x driver and got a panic saying already in driver.
>
> Here is what the console says in v1.3.24 with pcmcia_2.6.3:
>
> > on bus: SCSISEQ (); SCSISIG ( MESSAGE IN ); INTSTAT( hi );
> > SSTAT ( SELD0 PHASEMIS PHASECHG REQINIT ); SSTAT ( PHASEMIS );
> > SXFRCTL0 ( CH1); SIGNAL ( BSYI REQI ); SELID (20 ), SSTAT2 ( SEMPTY );
> > SFCNT (0); FCNT (0); DMACNTRL0 (16 BIT PIO WRITE );
> > MESSAGE IN, target disconnected, d+, aha15xx; entering intr() (a215b)
> > intr should leave first.
> > kernel panic; aha152x: already in driver
> >
> > In swapper task - not syncing
>
> My cables are terminated, everything works fine under DOS. I have
> tried different v1.2 and v1.3 versions of the kernel and I have read the
> PCMCIA HOWTO and the SCSI HOWTO. I haven't had any problems using a de650
> PCMCIA ethernet card. If I disable reconnect in the aha152x driver, I
> go much longer before the panic.
>
> Any pointers on how to debug this would be appreciated.
>
> Tom Mullin
> tpm@netcom.com
>
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