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Re: sym53c8xx problems

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerard Roudier)
Thu Nov 11 09:19:26 1999

Date:   Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:36:38 +0100 (MET)
From: Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
To: Sven Anders <anderss@fmi.uni-passau.de>
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On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Sven Anders wrote:
 
> Hello!
> 
> I'm having severe problems with my sym53c8xx using my harddisk.
> I upgraded my system to 2.2.12/2.2.13 from 2.2.11 and getting continously
> resettings of the scsi adapter (every 10-20 seconds on heavy access).
> 
> Is there a known problem with this driver?

There is no change in the driver code between 2.2.11 and 2.2.13.

Only minor changes in the supported device table, as follow:
 2.2.12  support for some new 53C876 revisions.
 2.2.13  support for the 53C1510D in 53C8XX emulation mode. 

> Any boot/module-parameters to try ?

'emulate-kernel-2.2.11' should have been fine but it is not available. ;-)

> Some log messages I got:
> 
> Nov  9 22:41:03 skeeve kernel: scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of retries. 
> Nov  9 22:41:03 skeeve kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. 
> Nov  9 22:41:03 skeeve kernel: sym53c8xx_reset: pid=9590 reset_flags=1 serial_number=0 serial_number_at_timeout=0 
> Nov  9 22:41:03 skeeve kernel: scsi0: device driver called scsi_done() for a syncronous reset. 
> Nov  9 22:41:14 skeeve kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 9590, scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 Mode Sense 00 04 00 ff 00  
> Nov  9 22:41:14 skeeve kernel: sym53c8xx_abort: pid=9590 serial_number=9613 serial_number_at_timeout=9613 
> Nov  9 22:41:15 skeeve kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 9590) timed out - resetting 
> Nov  9 22:41:15 skeeve kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. 
> Nov  9 22:41:15 skeeve kernel: sym53c8xx_reset: pid=9590 reset_flags=2 serial_number=9613 serial_number_at_timeout=9613 
> Nov  9 22:41:25 skeeve kernel: scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of retries. 
> Nov  9 22:41:25 skeeve kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. 
> Nov  9 22:41:25 skeeve kernel: sym53c8xx_reset: pid=9591 reset_flags=1 serial_number=0 serial_number_at_timeout=0 
> Nov  9 22:41:25 skeeve kernel: scsi0: device driver called scsi_done() for a syncronous reset. 
> 
> 
> Regards
>  Sven
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