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SubjectRe: Adaptec 29160 + Promise Ultratrak100 TX8 problems
Maarten de Boer <mdeboer@iua.upf.es> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am having nasty problems with an Adaptec 29160 and Promise
> Ultratrak100 TX8 external RAID. (kernel 2.6.11)

It would be helpful if you could retest 2.6.12-rc1 or, better,
2.6.12-rc1-mm1.

But afaik this remains unresolved?

> Initially, I can access the RAID normally. I create a (small, for
> testing) partition on it, and an ext3 filesystem. But when I start
> writing, in no-time the RAID and the SCSI adapter get into a broken
> state, and rebooting both RAID and Linux (simply rmmod/modprobe is not
> enough) is the only way out.
>
> I trigger this with a small test like creating 10000 files, or
> extracting a kernel tar.gz.
>
> In my /var/log/messages I find:
>
> Mar 8 10:58:22 iua-file-2 kernel: (scsi3:A:0:0): data overrun detected in Data-out phase. Tag == 0x2.
> Mar 8 10:58:22 iua-file-2 kernel: (scsi3:A:0:0): Have seen Data Phase. Length = 524288. NumSGs = 33.
> Mar 8 10:58:52 iua-file-2 kernel: scsi3:0:0:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message
> Mar 8 10:58:52 iua-file-2 kernel: CDB: 0x2a 0x0 0x0 0x2 0x8c 0x37 0x0 0x4 0x0 0x0
> Mar 8 10:58:52 iua-file-2 kernel: scsi3: At time of recovery, card was not paused
> Mar 8 10:58:52 iua-file-2 kernel: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dump Card State Begins <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> Mar 8 10:58:52 iua-file-2 kernel: scsi3: Dumping Card State in Data-out phase,
> at SEQADDR 0x17b
> Mar 8 10:58:52 iua-file-2 kernel: Card was paused
>
> I have tried changing settings in the adaptec controller BIOS, I tried
> lowering the global_tag_depth, all to no avail. And having the reboot
> everytime it goes wrong makes trying things rather slow :-(
>
> I googled for the messages, and found many people mentioning them, but
> no solution.
>
> I'd very much appreciate your help. Please Cc: me when replying, because
> I am not subscribed to the lkml.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Maarten
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