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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 17:41:06 -0500
From: "Karl O . Pinc" <kop@meme.com>
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Subject: Re: linux 2.4.8 vs 2.4.7 AHA2840A/42A "aic7xxx_abort return 8194"
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On 2001.08.14 17:36 Karl O . Pinc wrote:
> On 2001.08.14 17:07 Karl O . Pinc wrote:

<snip>

> I'm re-incarnating the box and decided to load test it (copying large
> files
> from drive to drive. 3 drives, 4 processes, file sizes of {2,3,5,7} *
> 10^7B, 64MB ram).  Running linux-2.4.7, I get a rare (every few hours)
> "aic7xxx_abort return 8194", I've seen it while attempting to send ABORT
> to
> a drive.  (Sorry, I'm running 2.4.7 on top of the old 2.0.34 system, just
> to test, and syslogd seems to be down, so I don't have a written log to
> work from here.  Better info collected below.)
> 
> I just switched to 2.4.8 and I get frequent (most of the time, there's no
> disk activity while the driver issues errors) "aic7xxx_abort return 8194"
> messages.  Mostly on ABORT but sometimes on TARGET_RESET.  There are so
> many the driver goes on to do "Recovery SCB completes" type messages.

<many details snipped>

This is interesting, the whole scsi subsystem seens to be completely hung
after loadtest for a while on 2.4.8.

Karl <kop@meme.com>


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