Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Mar 1998 22:21:28 -0500 (EST) | From | Ron McCormick <> | Subject | Re: SCSI deadlock |
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I saw the same type of problems as well with all of the current kernels, with my AHA-2940 (also aic7xxx) until I used the 5.0.7 driver that was floating around here. This fixed the problems with the 2940 that was causing deadlocks while doing a find on my SCSI drives.
-Ron McCormick
PS - Take this as another shameless endorsement of this new driver.
On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Roland Hautz wrote:
> Hi, > > It seems that I have still SCSI-Lockups. I can force lockups by reading > some 50MB from by /dev/sda1. There are no messages in the logs. There is a > message on the console, reading "(date)(hostname) kernel: (scsi0:0:0) > Target busy)". > > Lockups occured with 2.1.88, 2.1.89 and 2.1.90 and, if I remember > correctly, also with 2.0.3[23], each with SMP on a Dual Pentium. Some > other data: > > -------------- > hostname:/proc/scsi # cat scsi > Attached devices: > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 > Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST34501W Rev: 0018 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 > Vendor: TEAC Model: CD-ROM CD-532S Rev: 1.0A > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 > Vendor: ICP Model: Host Drive #00 Rev: > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > > hostname:/proc/scsi # cat aic7xxx/0 > Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 4.1/3.2 > Compile Options: > AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY : 15 > AIC7XXX_TAGGED_QUEUEING: Enabled > AIC7XXX_PAGE_ENABLE : Disabled > AIC7XXX_PROC_STATS : Disabled > > Adapter Configuration: > SCSI Adapter: Adaptec AIC-7880 Ultra SCSI host adapter > (AIC-788x chipset) > Host Bus: Wide > Base IO: 0xd000 > Base IO Memory: 0xe2000000 > IRQ: 10 > SCBs: Used 8, HW 16, Page 16 > Interrupts: 27688 > Serial EEPROM: True > Extended Translation: Enabled > SCSI Bus Reset: Enabled > Ultra SCSI: Enabled > Disconnect Enable Flags: 0xffff > > hostname:/proc/scsi # cat gdth/1 > GDT6117RP/GDT6517RP (PCI) SCSI Disk Array Controller > Firmware Version: 2.19 Driver Version: 1.02 > ------------------ > > With that "target busy" message, I suspect the aic-7880 module is the > culprit. > > What could I check? Are there any patches I could try? > > On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, MOLNAR Ingo wrote: > > > the fixes are in 2.1.90 now. I have a quite complex SCSI setup, and i've > > been running with the NMI watchdog that also checks for the above cli/sti > > bug (and other spinlock bugs), and i saw no problems so far. Any SCSI > > lockup with 2.1.90 should thus be considered a major bug, mail me and i > > get it fixed ASAP. > > > -- > Dipl.-Phys. Roland Hautz Evolution Systems GmbH > Network Administration Mobil-Oil-Str. 42 > mailto:rh@evosys.net http://www.esib.net/ D-84539 Ampfing > Tel.:(49)(8636)9830-32 Fax: (49)(8636)9830-99 > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >
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