On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 17:06 +0200, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > Cute error message but it appears just before my machine > locks solid. It looks like it is coming from a LSI 53c1030 > SPI controller which lspci says is PCI-X but is actually > PCIe. > > I get that with 2 different tape drives (LTO-1 and LTO-3) > whose true identities are hidden behind badge engineering, > Tandberg data perhaps? Anyway both seem to have a major > problem with the LOG SENSE command and the Tape Alert > page in particular. > > The lockup occurs with both a Debian Lenny standard kernel > (lk 2.6.26-2-686) and a kernel.org lk 2.6.30 . So the problem has been around for a while ... > There is nothing other than the 53c1030 and a single tape > drive on the SCSI bus. So there is no good reason to lock > up the machine for any SCSI related error. LSI just reworked the code that does this doorbell handling for the 2.6.31 merge window could you see if 2.6.31-rc2 is still exhibiting the problem? Thanks, James -- 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
