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Date:      Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:13:42 +0200 (MSZ)
From:      Patrick Mcallister <patrick.mcallister@univie.ac.at>
To:        Todd Denniston <Todd.Denniston@ssa.crane.navy.mil>
Cc:        aic7xxx@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Attempt to issue message failed
Message-ID:  <Pine.A41.4.56.0406251645080.129844@login.univie.ac.at>
In-Reply-To: <40DC1B3E.FE0EC168@ssa.crane.navy.mil>
References:  <Pine.A41.4.56.0406251027500.11898@login.univie.ac.at> <40DC1B3E.FE0EC168@ssa.crane.navy.mil>

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thanks for your quick reply.

the answers, as far as i can give them, are as follows:

ad 1) the controller can handle up to U160. the drive attached on the
first channel (the buggy one) is actually U320 ( fujitsu MAP3367NC). it is
attached to the scsi controller via a super-micro backplane (sca742) which
should (i.e. claims to) automatically take care of termination etc. i
tried to change the jumper settings on the mainboard, but to no effect.

ad 2) jumpers are all i can set, and i tried all combinations. the scsi
disc itself is in a drive carrier, i was told not to fiddle around with
that (the backplane's job to terminate in this setup, not the drive's).

ad 3) yes.

ad 4) unfortunately i can't do that, because the cabling is very tight and
i'd have to near completely disassemble the whole server to get at the
cable leaving the backplane. my other device is an external raid array.
that works fine (on channel 2).

ad 5) i put that as global_tag_depth option. it wouldn't find root
filesystem otherwise.

another bit of information i gathered: in scsi bios, the harddisc gets
read as ASYNC, whereas the raid gets 160 as transferrate. not sure if this
is important.

thank you,

pma


On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Todd Denniston wrote:

> Patrick Mcallister wrote:
> >
> <SNIP>
> >
> > -) debian testing/unstable
> > -) kernel 2.4.26 with aic7xxx compiled in
> >
> > some helpful output:
> >
>
> Sorry I only really have more questions for you, as I don't think you
> mentioned the answers to them in your first email:
> 1) Both devices are showing ANSI SCSI revision: 03, are they both supposed to
> be U160 devices?
> 	a U160 dropping back to 3MB/s seems like there is a really big problem on
> that bus.
> 2) do you have a physical terminator on the end of the first scsi bus, or have
> told the last device (only device in your case) on that bus to do internal
> termination?
> 3) do you have the correct scsi cable, that is, the cable connecting the
> devices has the correct ends for both devices (no gender benders, or
> extenders) and is rated for U160.
> 4) have you physically swapped the devices from bus to bus? (rule out a bad
> connector on the card)
> 5) did you set the queue depth to 1 or did it drop back to that?
> <SNIP>
> > this is some output from the boot sequence:
> >
> > ##############################################################
> >
> <SNIP>
> > ahc_pci:3:2:1: Features 0x1fef6, Bugs 0x40, Flags 0x20485540
> > scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
> >         <Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter>
> >         aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
> >
> > scsi1 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
> >         <Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter>
> >         aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
> >
> > (scsi1:A:0:0): Sending PPR bus_width 1, period 9, offset 7f, ppr_options 2
> > (scsi1:A:0:0): Received PPR width 1, period 9, offset 7f,options 2
> >         Filtered to width 1, period 9, offset 7f, options 2
> > (scsi1:A:0): 6.600MB/s transfers (16bit)
> > scsi1: target 0 using 16bit transfers
> > (scsi1:A:0): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 127, 16bit)
> > scsi1: target 0 synchronous at 80.0MHz DT, offset = 0x7f
> > scsi0:A:0:0: Attempt to issue message failed
> > scsi0:A:0:0: Attempt to issue message failed
> > scsi0:A:0:0: Attempt to issue message failed
> >   Vendor: FUJITSU   Model: MAP3367NC         Rev: 0108
> >   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
> > (scsi0:A:0): 3.300MB/s transfers
> > scsi0:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 1
> >   Vendor: Demon SA  Model: -08U4P            Rev: R0.0
> >   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
> > (scsi1:A:0): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 127, 16bit)
> > scsi1:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 1
> > Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> > Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> > scsi0:A:0:0: Attempt to issue message failed
> > scsi0:A:0:0: Attempt to issue message failed
> > SCSI device sda: 71775284 512-byte hdwr sectors (36749 MB)
> > Partition check:
> >  sda:scsi0:A:0:0: Attempt to issue message failed
> >  sda1 sda2 <scsi0:A:0:0: Attempt to issue message failed
> >  sda5scsi0:A:0:0: Attempt to issue message failed
> >  sda6scsi0:A:0:0: Attempt to issue message failed
> >  sda7scsi0:A:0:0: Attempt to issue message failed
> >  sda8scsi0:A:0:0: Attempt to issue message failed
> >  sda9scsi0:A:0:0: Attempt to issue message failed
> >  sda10 >
> > SCSI device sdb: 1467908096 512-byte hdwr sectors (751569 MB)
> >  sdb: sdb1 sdb2 < sdb5 sdb6 sdb7 >
> >
> > ####################################################################
> >
> > cat /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0 :
> >
> > Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 6.2.36
> > Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter
> > aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
> > Allocated SCBs: 5, SG List Length: 102
> <SNIP>
> > Target 0 Negotiation Settings
> >         User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 127, 16bit)
> >         Goal: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 127, 16bit)
> >         Curr: 3.300MB/s transfers
> >         Channel A Target 0 Lun 0 Settings
> >                 Commands Queued 5707
> >                 Commands Active 0
> >                 Command Openings 1
> >                 Max Tagged Openings 1
> >                 Device Queue Frozen Count 0
> <SNIP>
> >
> > cat /proc/scsi/scsi :
> >
> > Attached devices:
> > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
> >   Vendor: FUJITSU  Model: MAP3367NC        Rev: 0108
> >   Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 03
> > Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
> >   Vendor: Demon SA Model: -08U4P           Rev: R0.0
> >   Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 03
>
> --
> Todd Denniston
> Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
> Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter



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