Maarten de Boer <mdeboer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am having nasty problems with an Adaptec 29160 and Promise > Ultratrak100 TX8 external RAID. (kernel 2.6.11) Could you please test 2.6.12-rc5, provide us with a status update? Thanks. > Initially, I can access the RAID normally. I create a (small, for > testing) partition on it, and an ext3 filesystem. But when I start > writing, in no-time the RAID and the SCSI adapter get into a broken > state, and rebooting both RAID and Linux (simply rmmod/modprobe is not > enough) is the only way out. > > I trigger this with a small test like creating 10000 files, or > extracting a kernel tar.gz. > > In my /var/log/messages I find: > > Mar 8 10:58:22 iua-file-2 kernel: (scsi3:A:0:0): data overrun detected in Data-out phase. Tag == 0x2. > Mar 8 10:58:22 iua-file-2 kernel: (scsi3:A:0:0): Have seen Data Phase. Length = 524288. NumSGs = 33. > Mar 8 10:58:52 iua-file-2 kernel: scsi3:0:0:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message > Mar 8 10:58:52 iua-file-2 kernel: CDB: 0x2a 0x0 0x0 0x2 0x8c 0x37 0x0 0x4 0x0 0x0 > Mar 8 10:58:52 iua-file-2 kernel: scsi3: At time of recovery, card was not paused > Mar 8 10:58:52 iua-file-2 kernel: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dump Card State Begins <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > Mar 8 10:58:52 iua-file-2 kernel: scsi3: Dumping Card State in Data-out phase, > at SEQADDR 0x17b > Mar 8 10:58:52 iua-file-2 kernel: Card was paused > > I have tried changing settings in the adaptec controller BIOS, I tried > lowering the global_tag_depth, all to no avail. And having the reboot > everytime it goes wrong makes trying things rather slow :-( > > I googled for the messages, and found many people mentioning them, but > no solution. > > I'd very much appreciate your help. Please Cc: me when replying, because > I am not subscribed to the lkml. > > Kind regards, > > Maarten > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
