Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:08:48 -0500 (EST) | From | Zwane Mwaikambo <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.65 7880 SCSI bug |
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On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Greg Copeland wrote:
> I have an Asus P2L97-DS motherboard. It has two PII-333 in it. I'm > using the onboard SCSI interface, which is a 7880 (U). I have 5-SCSI > drives (combination of wide and narrow), a SCSI CDROM and a SCSI tape > drive. The drives have ID's 0-6 while the interface has ID 7. > > When attempting to boot 2.5.65 or 2.5.64, neither is able to get past > SCSI initialization. It simply loops and never completes a boot cycle. > I have tried both the "newer" Adaptec AIC7xxx Fast -> U160 support (New > Driver) and the older Adaptec AIC7xxx support (old driver). Both > experience the same behavior. > > I'm currently running 2.4.19 and this system has been working, more or > less as is, since the mid 2.2-days.
Could you try booting with the following combinations of kernel parameters and report back.
1) "noapic" 2) "maxcpus=1" 3) "noirqbalance" with the appended patch.
Note that this didn't do anything for me either, my current workaround until i find out what's wrong is booting with noapic.
Index: linux-2.5.66/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c =================================================================== RCS file: /build/cvsroot/linux-2.5.66/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c,v retrieving revision 1.1.1.1 diff -u -p -B -r1.1.1.1 io_apic.c --- linux-2.5.66/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c 24 Mar 2003 23:40:27 -0000 1.1.1.1 +++ linux-2.5.66/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c 28 Mar 2003 16:48:41 -0000 @@ -1143,7 +1143,7 @@ void __init setup_IO_APIC_irqs(void) entry.delivery_mode = INT_DELIVERY_MODE; entry.dest_mode = INT_DEST_MODE; entry.mask = 0; /* enable IRQ */ - entry.dest.logical.logical_dest = TARGET_CPUS; + entry.dest.logical.logical_dest = 1; /* TARGET_CPUS; */ idx = find_irq_entry(apic,pin,mp_INT); if (idx == -1) { -- function.linuxpower.ca - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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