From owner-aic7xxx Tue Aug 7 12:29:21 2001 Delivered-To: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Received: from missioncriticallinux.com (mail.missioncriticallinux.com [208.51.139.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AFCD37B414 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 12:29:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from coughlan@missioncriticallinux.com) Received: from missioncriticallinux.com (IDENT:coughlan@coughlan.lowell.mclinux.com [10.1.8.126]) by missioncriticallinux.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA25877 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 15:29:03 -0400 Message-ID: <3B70417F.C952DE01@missioncriticallinux.com> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 15:29:03 -0400 From: Tom Coughlan Organization: Mission Critical Linux X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0.14smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Delays and Messages on RH7.1 Linux + AHA2940AU References: <200108020137.f721b4I74782@aslan.scsiguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm not sure this is the same problem reported earlier, but it sure is a pain. When the AIC-7896 is probed, there is a ~6 second delay for every bus ID on both channels, accompanied by the error messages indicating: - Attempting to queue an ABORT message - Command already completed - scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after bus reset: host 1 channel 0 id n lun 0 I will send the verbose output to Justin. This is a stock 2.4.6 kernel, with the linux-aic7xxx-6.2.0-2.4.6.patch applied. The AIC-7896 is on the motherboard of a VA-Linux 2200 system. There are no SCSI devices or cables attached to either channel. It may be just a coincidence, but I am getting a similar behavior on a qLogic QLA2200 FC adapter that is also in the system. It delays 6 seconds for each SCSI ID 0-255, printing: kernel: qlogicfc0 : scsi abort failure: 4006 kernel: qlogicfc0 : abort failed kernel: qlogicfc0 : firmware status is 4000 3 kernel: scsi: device set offline - command error recover failed: host 0 channel 0 id 255 lun 0 Is this coincidence, or something in the mid-layer? -- Tom Coughlan Mission Critical Linux tel: 978-606-0262 coughlan@missioncriticallinux.com "Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: > > > > >I'm experiencing painful delays during attempts to boot my Linux system. This > >is Redhat 7.1 with a recompiled generic 2.4.7 kernel. > > Two things. > > 1) Can you try using the 6.2.0 version of the aic7xxx driver? You > can get patches for 2.4.6, which will apply to 2.4.7, from here: > > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/ > > 2) Run with aic7xxx=verbose either by adding an append line to > /etc/lilo.conf (assumes driver is statically compiled into the > kernel) or by adding an option line in /etc/modules.conf. Once > you've done this, send me your kernel messages that indicate the > error as well as the full probe messages for the controller. > > -- > Justin > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message