Compaq Prosignia NCR53x810: "CACHE TEST FAILED"

Christoph Lameter (christoph@lameter.com)
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:35:43 -0700 (PDT)


We upgraded a Compaq Prosigna 300 to 2.2.X. 2.2.6 gives the following
messages on bootup. What does this "CACHE INCORRECTLY CONFIGURED" mean?
Anything dangerous for our server?

Linux version 2.2.6 (root@hur) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #4 Thu Apr 22
11:31:13 PDT 1999
Detected 90193736 Hz processor.
PC/Xx: Added board 0, PC/Xi 64k 16 ports at 0x0200 base 0x0D0000
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 35.94 BogoMIPS
Memory: 30572k/32768k available (1044k kernel code, 412k reserved, 656k
data, 84k init)
CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 04
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf005e
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Device 00:00 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 00:78 not found by BIOS
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Digiboard PC/X{i,e,eve} driver v1.6.1
PC/Xx: PC/Xe (64k) I/O=0x200 Mem=0xd0000 Ports=16
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Software Watchdog Timer: 0.05, timer margin: 60 sec
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 12, function 0
sym53c8xx: 53c810a detected
sym53c810a-0: rev=0x02, base=0x2200000, io_port=0x7100, irq=15
sym53c810a-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking
CACHE TEST FAILED: script execution failed.
start=0000bcf8, pc=0000bd04, end=0000bd18
CACHE INCORRECTLY CONFIGURED.
sym53c810a-0: giving up ...
ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 12, function 0
ncr53c8xx: 53c810 detected
ncr53c810-0: rev=0x02, base=0x2200000, io_port=0x7100, irq=15
ncr53c810-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking
ncr53c810-0: restart (scsi reset).
scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - version 3.2
scsi : 1 host.
ncr53c810-0-<0,*>: FAST-5 SCSI 5.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 8)
Vendor: COMPAQ Model: ST12550N Rev: 3223
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
ncr53c810-0-<1,*>: FAST-5 SCSI 5.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 8)
Vendor: COMPAQ Model: DPES-31080 Rev: S70E
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 27871-XXX Rev: 4.BG
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
Vendor: COMPAQ Model: CD-ROM CR-503BCQ Rev: 1.1i
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
ncr53c810-0-<0,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 4
ncr53c810-0-<1,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 4
scsi : detected 1 SCSI tape 1 SCSI cdrom 2 SCSI disks total.
ncr53c810-0-<5,*>: device did not report SYNC.
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.54
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4110000 [2006 MB] [2.0GB]
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2051000 [1001 MB] [1.0GB]

later

ncr53c810-0-<4,*>: FAST-5 SCSI 5.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 8)
Data wakeup.
Data wakeup.
Data wakeup.

hur:/proc/scsi/ncr53c8xx$ cat 0
General information:
Chip NCR53C810, device id 0x1, revision id 0x2
IO port address 0x7100, IRQ number 15
Using memory mapped IO at virtual address 0xc2802000
Synchronous period factor 25, max commands per lun 4

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