James Bottomley wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 15:12 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: >> So we really should loosen that statement to do retry for all ASC 0x29 >> values as a power-on might well have occured without a reset. > > Actually, there's probably no reason to qualify the UNIT_ATTENTION at > all. Any device that replies UNIT_ATTENTION to INQUIRY is out of spec, > so it's reasonable to assume that the ASC/ASCQ responses aren't in spec > either. There doesn't seem to be a disadvantage to just retrying three > times in all unit attention cases. > Well, after looking through the trace I discovered it's not actually a broken device, but rather more a driver issue: - SCSI ML sends inquiry - HBA cannot send message as transport parameters are invalid - HBA requests sense - HBA sets the sense code and returns command with code 'ADD_TO_MLQUEUE' to inform ML to retry the command Only the ML fails to honour the ADD_TO_MLQUEUE code as this is scsi_scan(), which doesn't check for it. So if anything then rather the code in scsi_scan should been fixed to retry the command if so advised from the LLD. > Did you have time to look at the reset locking issue that turned up in > the aic7xxx backport? > Already sent. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke hare@xxxxxxx SuSE Linux Products GmbH S390 & zSeries Maxfeldstraße 5 +49 911 74053 688 90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de --- Excerpt of the trace: 4:0:10:0: scsi scan: INQUIRY pass 1 length 36 scsi_add_timer: scmd: d6d57e00, time: 1375, (e083d29e) 4:0:10:0: send 0xd6d57e00 4:0:10:0: command: Inquiry: 12 00 00 00 24 00 buffer = 0xd8baf880, bufflen = 36, done = 0xe083ec8a, queuecommand 0xe0ceeb1c leaving scsi_dispatch_cmnd() scsi4:A:10:0: INITIATOR_MSG_OUT byte 0x1 WDTR negotiation rejected busfree. scsi4: ILLEGAL_PHASE 0x80 target4:0:10: asynchronous (scsi4:A:10:0): Unexpected command phase from packetized target scsi4:A:10:0: Attempt to issue message failed (scsi4:A:10:0): SCB 1: requests Check Status (scsi4:A:10:0): Sending Sense Copied 18 bytes of sense data at 0: 0x70 0x0 0x6 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0xa 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x29 0x1 0x1 0x0 0x0 0x0 scsi_delete_timer: scmd: d6d57e00, rtn: 1 4:0:10:0: done 0xd6d57e00 SUCCESS 8000002 4:0:10:0: command: Inquiry: 12 00 00 00 24 00 : Current: sense key: Unit Attention Additional sense: Power on occurred scsi scan: INQUIRY failed with code 0x8000002 - : 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