Re: NCR53c810 SCSI in >= pre8 seems to have a problem on alphas
Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:24:19 +0100 (CET)
On 25 Jan 1999, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> "Steven N. Hirsch" <shirsch@adelphia.net> writes:
> > On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > I installed pre9 on my UDB this afternoon. Works fine. Didn't try IDE or sound,
> > > though.
> > Here as well. No problems.
>
> Maybe mine sees more disk activity than most, but pre8 and pre9 die
> with SCSI errors whenever they hit a really big load of disk activity
> (like doing a find over the whole disk, which happens every morning at
> 6:30 or so...).
>
> I can't help but notice that the version of the NCR driver appears to
> have changed with pre8. This didn't happen with older versions.
>
> I get the following messages:
>
> Jan 25 06:39:27 mdorman kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 33130, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 0x2a 00 00 2c 00 f0 00 00 02 00
> Jan 25 06:39:27 mdorman kernel: ncr53c8xx_abort: pid=33130 serial_number=33137 serial_number_at_timeout=33137
> Jan 25 06:39:27 mdorman kernel: ncr53c810-0: abort ccb=fffffc0000008820 (cancel)
> Jan 25 06:39:29 mdorman kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 33130) timed out - resetting
> Jan 25 06:39:30 mdorman kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
> Jan 25 06:39:30 mdorman kernel: ncr53c8xx_reset: pid=33130 reset_flags=2 serial_number=33137 serial_number_at_timeout=33137
> Jan 25 06:39:30 mdorman kernel: ncr53c810-0: restart (scsi reset).
Are you using the NCR53c7,8xx or the NCR53C8XX driver?
I used NCR53c7,8xx before and sometimes saw those messages too. For pre9, I
switched to the NCR53C8XX driver I'm also happily using on my PPC box.
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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