Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 17:25:51 -0400 From: "John T. Stapleton" <jstapes@gis.net> To: AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jstapes@gis.net Subject: Problem getting Seagate ST318436LW to work with AIC7xxx driver Message-ID: <200009042125.RAA01570@gis.net>
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I am having trouble getting a new disk drive to work with the AIC7xxx
driver. The new drive is a Seagate SCSI drive, model ST318436LW.
Environment:
Mandrake Linux Version 7.0
Linux 2.2.14-15mdksmp #1 SMP Tue Jan 4 21:36:33 CET 2000 i686 unknown
Motherboard: ASUS P2B-DS with integrated AIC7890 controller
includes optional AIC-3860 transceiver according to web
site where I bought the motherbord
AIC7xxx driver version from syslog:
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.21/3.2.4
<Adaptec AIC-7890/1 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter>
Symptoms:
The driver seems to go into an infinite loop displaying messages to
the console at the rate of about every two seconds. I wrote down
what I thought were the important parts of the messages as they were
scrolling.
The messages have the form:
host 0 abort (pid 12) ...
channel 0 reset timed out trying harder
abort command due to timeout scsi 0 channel 0 id 9 lun 0
One of the lines early on in the output contains the string:
Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
for the Seagate drive.
I would normally think that meant the drive was not spun up, but when I
type <Ctrl><A> during startup to enter the SCSI BIOS, I can choose the
"SCSI Disk Utilities" option and from there choose either "Format" or
"Verify" and both run to completion without any indication of error.
What can I do next? What other information can I provide that might
provide insight to my problem?
John
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Below are the SCSI BIOS settings. Further on is the syslog entries when
I boot without the Seagate drive connected.
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Configure/View Host Adapter Settings
AIC7890 at Bus:00h Device:06h
SCSI Bus Interface Definitions
Host Adapter SCSI ID ............. 7
SCSI Parity Checking ............. Enabled
Host Adapter SCSI Termination .... Enabled
Additional Options
Boot Device Options .............. Press <Enter>
Boot SCSI ID ................... 0
Boot LUN Number ................ 0
SCSI Device Options .............. Press <Enter> (see below)
Advanced Configuration Options ... Press <Enter> (see below)
BIOS Information
Interrupt (IRQ) Channel ......... 14
I/O Port Address ................ D000h
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Advanced Configuration Options (from above)
Reset SCSI Bus at IC Initialization .................... Enabled
Display <Ctrl><A> Message During BIOS Initialization ... Enabled
Extended BIOS Translation for DOS Drives > 1 GByte ..... Enabled
Verbose/Silent Mode .................................... Verbose
Options Listed Below Have NO EFFECT if the BIOS is Disabled
Host Adapter BIOS ...................................... Enabled
Support Removable Disks Under BIOS as Fixed Disks ...... Boot Only
BIOS Support for Bootable CD-ROM ....................... Disabled
BIOS Support for Int13 Extensions ...................... Enabled
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SCSI Device Options (from above)
Units Unit Units
Description 0-3 4 5-15
----------------------------- ----- ----- -----
Sync Transfer Rate .......... 80.0 10.0 80.0
Initiate Wide Negotiation ... Yes No Yes
Enable Disconnection ........ Yes Yes Yes
Send Start Unit Command ..... Yes Yes Yes
Enable Write Back Cache ..... N/C N/C N/C
Options Listed Below Have NO EFFECT if the BIOS is Disabled
BIOS Multiple LUN Support ... No No No
Include in BIOS Scan ........ Yes Yes Yes
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SCSI Disk Utilities
SCSI ID #0 IBM DNES-309170W ULTRA2-LVD
SCSI ID #1 IBM DNES-309170W ULTRA2-LVD
SCSI ID #4 YAMAHA CRW4416S Fast/Ultra-SE
SCSI ID #8 IBM DDRS-31390D ULTRA2-LVD
SCSI ID #9 SEAGATE ST318436LW ULTRA2-LVD
all other ID's say No Device
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Below are the syslog entries when I boot without the Seagate drive
connected.
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scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
(scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7890/1 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 6/0
(scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 385 instructions downloaded
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.21/3.2.4
<Adaptec AIC-7890/1 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter>
scsi : 1 host.
(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 80.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 31.
Vendor: IBM Model: DNES-309170W Rev: SA30
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
(scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 80.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 31.
Vendor: IBM Model: DNES-309170W Rev: SA30
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
(scsi0:0:4:0) Using asynchronous transfers.
Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW4416S Rev: 1.0g
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
(scsi0:0:8:0) Synchronous at 80.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-39130D Rev: DC1B
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 8, lun 0
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17916240 [8748 MB] \
[8.7 GB]
sda: sda1 sda2
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17916240 [8748 MB] \
[8.7 GB]
sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3
SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17850000 [8715 MB] \
[8.7 GB]
sdc: sdc1 sdc2
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