Subject: Re: no luck with Adaptec SCSI controller in 2.4.X
From: Sy or Ursula Bensky (subensky@lvcm.com)
Date: Sun Oct 07 2001 - 10:13:53 MDT
I am assuming that the SCSI chain is terminated properly. It seems that as
new versions of both YDL and Mac OS come out that they are more and more
sensitive to SCSI termination.
Sy Bensky
At 12:07 PM 10-07-2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Sorry to bother you, I am trying to move from the 2.2.19 kernel to
>Ben Herrenschmidt's latest 2.4.11 kernel on a ppc linux B+W G3 machine
>(same error occurs on 2.4.6, and 2.4.8 kernels too).
>
>I have an Apple supplied Adaptec SCSI PCI 2930CU card.
>
>After using scsi for a few minutes, I receive a flood of the following
>error messages:
>
>aic7xxx_abort returns 8194
>
>and basically my machine becomes unusable.
>
>If I return to the 2.2.29 kernel, everything works fine.
>
>Here is what dmesg says about my card:
>>
>>SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
>>scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.1
>> <Adaptec 2902/04/10/15/20/30C SCSI adapter>
>> aic7850: Ultra Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/255 SCBs
>>
>> Vendor: QUANTUM Model: FIREBALL_TM3200S Rev: 300N
>> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>> Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST39140N Rev: 1498
>> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>> Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: L.27
>> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>>scsi0:0:1:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 253
>>scsi0:0:2:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 253
>>scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
>>scsi2 : MESH
>>Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
>>Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
>>Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
>>(scsi0:A:1): 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15)
>>SCSI device sda: 6281856 512-byte hdwr sectors (3216 MB)
>> /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: [mac] p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7 p8
>>(scsi0:A:2): 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15)
>>SCSI device sdb: 17783240 512-byte hdwr sectors (9105 MB)
>> /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0: [mac] p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7
>>sdc : READ CAPACITY failed.
>>sdc : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
>>Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
>>Additional sense indicates Medium not present
>>sdc : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
>> /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target5/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0
>> I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0
>> unable to read partition table
>
>
>Here is what lspci says:
>>
>>01:02.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-7850 (rev 03)
>> Subsystem: Adaptec AHA-2904/Integrated AIC-7850
>> Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
>>Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>> Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
>><TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>> Latency: 16 (1000ns min, 1000ns max), cache line size 08
>> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 23
>> Region 0: I/O ports at 1000 [disabled] [size=256]
>> Region 1: Memory at 80882000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>> Expansion ROM at 80890000 [disabled] [size=64K]
>> Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
>> Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
>>PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>> Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>>
>
>I tried to load the OLD AIC7XXX driver but could not find the proper line
>for the .config file.
>
>It seems CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX_OLD is no longer present in the .config.
>
>Has this been removed? If so, is there a patch that can add it back.
>
>Here are the kernel error messages:
>
>Oct 6 21:06:25 localhost kernel: scsi0:0:1:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT
>message
>Oct 6 21:06:25 localhost kernel: scsi0:0:1:0: Command found on device queue
>Oct 6 21:06:25 localhost kernel: aic7xxx_abort returns 8194
>Oct 6 21:06:25 localhost kernel: scsi0:0:1:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT
>message
>Oct 6 21:06:25 localhost kernel: scsi0:0:1:0: Command found on device queue
>
>
>As I aid, my complete system works fine under 2.2.19.
>
>Any idea on how I can debug this or what information you might need to
>debug this
>further would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Just to be safe, I have tried this with 2.4.6, 2.4.8, and 2.4.11 and
>all error out in exactly the same way.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Kevin
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