Messages in this thread | | | From | (Miquel van Smoorenburg) | Subject | Re: Scsi timeout / kernel panic | Date | 20 Nov 1999 21:41:13 +0100 |
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In article <cistron.38370415.8F8D9918@socketware.com>, Steven Sparks <sparks@socketware.com> wrote: >With the exception of the buslogic stuff, these are identical to the >errors I'm receiving with my quantum drives. This is three people >talking about at least four machines with quantum scsi drives locking >up in the same manner. this has begun happening since going from 2.0.x >to 2.2.x. I'm beginning to think that this is valid, not just an >anomaly of my system.
We had this a coupe of times in the 2.0.x timeframe as well with some drives. We emailed Leonard Z. about it a couple of times and it turned out in all cases to be buggy firmware on the drives.
It might well be that the 2.2.x drivers / scsi layer does things that 2.0.x didn't do, and that the drives firmware locks up. You can start by trying to turn off tagged hash for example to see if it helps. See the docs or source file of your scsi driver.
Sometimes you can also find firmware updates for the drive on the manufacturers website, though I have no idea how to upgrade the firmware on a SCSI drive.
HTH
Mike. -- First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
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