Eirc, We experienced an endless looping on mptspi init due to some drive f/w or cabling issue on an IA64 system. The mptspi driver kept initiating the device (see below for part of the log) and never stopped. I noticed that the patch (http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a= commit;h=6e1cad02763edec83dba8559d4be8d518a6562a5) caused the problem. If we don't do the mptspi_dv_renegotiate(hd), the driver initialized the device once and system boots fine. I think regardless of what, the mptspi driver shouldn't do an endless loop to stuck the system. Please comment. Thanks, Justin Chen -------------------------------------------------------------- target12:0:0: Beginning Domain Validation mptscsih: ioc3: attempting task abort! (sc=e0000040fcdee680) sd 12:0:0:0: command: Inquiry: 12 00 00 00 60 00 mptbase: Initiating ioc3 recovery mptscsih: ioc3: task abort: SUCCESS (sc=e0000040fcdee680) target12:0:0: Domain Validation detected failure, dropping back target12:0:0: Domain Validation skipping write tests target12:0:0: Ending Domain Validation target12:0:0: asynchronous target12:0:1: Beginning Domain Validation target12:0:1: Ending Domain Validation target12:0:1: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s DT (12.5 ns, offset 127) target12:0:2: Beginning Domain Validation target12:0:2: Ending Domain Validation target12:0:2: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s DT (12.5 ns, offset 63) target12:0:3: Beginning Domain Validation mptscsih: ioc3: attempting task abort! (sc=e0000040fcdee680) sd 12:0:3:0: command: Inquiry: 12 00 00 00 60 00 mptbase: Initiating ioc3 recovery mptscsih: ioc3: task abort: SUCCESS (sc=e0000040fcdee680) target12:0:3: Domain Validation detected failure, dropping back target12:0:3: Domain Validation skipping write tests target12:0:3: Ending Domain Validation target12:0:3: asynchronous target12:0:4: Beginning Domain Validation mptscsih: ioc3: attempting task abort! (sc=e0000040fcdee680) sd 12:0:4:0: command: Inquiry: 12 00 00 00 90 00 mptbase: Initiating ioc3 recovery mptscsih: ioc3: task abort: SUCCESS (sc=e0000040fcdee680) target12:0:4: Domain Validation detected failure, dropping back target12:0:4: Domain Validation skipping write tests target12:0:4: Ending Domain Validation target12:0:4: asynchronous target12:0:15: Beginning Domain Validation target12:0:15: Domain Validation skipping write tests target12:0:15: Ending Domain Validation target12:0:15: wide asynchronous target12:0:0: Beginning Domain Validation mptscsih: ioc3: attempting task abort! (sc=e0000040fcdee680) sd 12:0:0:0: command: Inquiry: 12 00 00 00 60 00 mptbase: Initiating ioc3 recovery mptscsih: ioc3: task abort: SUCCESS (sc=e0000040fcdee680) target12:0:0: Domain Validation detected failure, dropping back target12:0:0: Domain Validation skipping write tests target12:0:0: Ending Domain Validation target12:0:0: asynchronous target12:0:1: Beginning Domain Validation target12:0:1: Ending Domain Validation target12:0:1: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s DT (12.5 ns, offset 127) target12:0:2: Beginning Domain Validation target12:0:2: Ending Domain Validation target12:0:2: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s DT (12.5 ns, offset 63) target12:0:3: Beginning Domain Validation mptscsih: ioc3: attempting task abort! (sc=e0000040fcdee680) sd 12:0:3:0: command: Inquiry: 12 00 00 00 60 00 mptbase: Initiating ioc3 recovery mptscsih: ioc3: task abort: SUCCESS (sc=e0000040fcdee680) target12:0:3: Domain Validation detected failure, dropping back target12:0:3: Domain Validation skipping write tests target12:0:3: Ending Domain Validation target12:0:3: asynchronous target12:0:4: Beginning Domain Validation mptscsih: ioc3: attempting task abort! (sc=e0000040fcdee680) sd 12:0:4:0: command: Inquiry: 12 00 00 00 90 00 mptbase: Initiating ioc3 recovery mptscsih: ioc3: task abort: SUCCESS (sc=e0000040fcdee680) target12:0:4: Domain Validation detected failure, dropping back target12:0:4: Domain Validation skipping write tests target12:0:4: Ending Domain Validation target12:0:4: asynchronous target12:0:15: Beginning Domain Validation target12:0:15: Domain Validation skipping write tests target12:0:15: Ending Domain Validation target12:0:15: wide asynchronous target12:0:0: Beginning Domain Validation - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
