Re: SCSI Tape problem on FC2

From: Don Woodward (fedora_at_w-ent.com)
Date: 11/11/04

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    To: "Terry Polzin" <fox3ec208@wideopenwest.com>, "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:54:12 -0500

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    From: "Terry Polzin" <fox3ec208@wideopenwest.com>
    To: "Don Woodward" <fedora@w-ent.com>; "For users of Fedora Core releases"
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    Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 14:47
    Subject: Re: SCSI Tape problem on FC2

    On Thursday 11 November 2004 13:56, Don Woodward wrote:
    > Just added a SCSI card and TLZ10 tape drive to a system - getting the
    > following message below. Is this a known bug in FC2? Running kernel
    > 2.6.5-1.358.
    >
    > TIA
    >
    > scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
    > <Adaptec 2930CU SCSI adapter>
    > aic7860: Ultra Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/253 SCBs
    >
    > (scsi0:A:5): 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15)
    > Vendor: DEC Model: TLZ10 (C) DEC Rev: 04a8
    > Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
    > st: Version 20040318, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
    > Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
    > st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B), max page reachable by HBA
    > 1048575
    > st0: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes.
    > Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at
    > include/asm/semaphore.h:119
    > in_atomic():0, irqs_disabled():1
    > Call Trace:
    > [<0211691d>] __might_sleep+0x80/0x8a
    > [<129569c9>] ahc_linux_kill_dv_thread+0x4f/0x7b [aic7xxx]
    > [<1295b7b0>] ahc_linux_exit+0x18/0x2e [aic7xxx]
    > [<02126b19>] sys_delete_module+0x122/0x162
    > [<02137c1f>] unmap_vma_list+0xe/0x17
    > [<02137f64>] do_munmap+0xfe/0x108
    > [<02114408>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x446

    >>So what are you attempting to do when you get these messges. These look
    like
    >>boot stuff. Also, the kernel is a bit old, you may want to consider
    >>updating.

    Yes, this is boot stuff from dmesg - I started an update earlier today -
    hopefully that will fix it.

    Thanks!

    Don W. 

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