On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Douglas Gilbert<dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
It's probably not relevant to the problem, but I'm pretty sure 53c1030
SPI is a PCI-X device. I supported this driver for HP's IA64 (e.g
rx2600) machines starting around 2001 or 2002 (before PCIe was
available). Can you dump the lspci output that claims this is a PCIe
device?
> 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 .
>
> 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.
Other people have reported similar problems before:
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg14431.html
hth,
grant
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