Re: scsi resets with 2.2.17pre4

From: David Lombard (david.lombard@mscsoftware.com)
Date: Tue Jun 20 2000 - 10:12:38 EST


Flavio Pescuma wrote:
>
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > from what I can tell from lkml posts, the AIC7XXX SCSI drivers are
> > > broken in the 2.2.16/2.2.17prex tree.
> >
> > 2.2.16 has the 5.1.28 drivers which are fine it seems except with EISA, VLB
> > 5.1.30 in 2.2.17pre has problems with a lot of setups. 5.1.29 is what
> > I plan to try next and should fix the EISA/VLB thing but not break the rest
> > (I hope)
> Hi
>
> I tried 2.2.16 on a PCI machine with a aic7xxx onboard (Intel ISP
> motherboard) and experienced the same problem, lots of resets, it was
> almost impossible to do a mkfs, Redhat 2.2.12-20 worked fine.

The opposite occurs here. We get resets aplenty on 2.2.12-20 (RH6.1)
and aic7xxx 5.1.20 under heavy load. It's clean under light/normal
loads

Not a single reset after hundreds of GB of intensive I/O on 2.2.16 or
2.2.17.

--
David N. Lombard
MSC.Software

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