Need help with diagnosing SCSI related (probably hardware?) problem (DC395 driver)

From: Oliver Feiler (kiza_at_gmx.net)
Date: 11/30/03

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Date:	Sun, 30 Nov 2003 23:38:31 +0100

    Hi,

    since I couple of days I have the following problem. Though I have no idea how
    to diagnose it and what is causing it. Maybe someone has a clue if I post it
    here.

    My SCSI chain:
    Tekram DC395, using the driver from Kurt Garloff
    (http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/dc395/)
    Attached is a TEAC CD-R56S4 CDR drive and Panasonic LF-D101 DVD-RAM drive. I
    use the DVD-RAM to backup stuff, usually 2 GB gets written to a medium as one
    file.

    Since a couple of days however the system just freezes during the backup. As
    the drive LED of the CD burner blinks every minute or so I suspect Linux is
    trying to issue a SCSI reset, because something (presumable the DVD-RAM
    drive) got stuck. This happens endlessly until I press the reset button.

    If the system is frozen, no keyboard input works, the screen is not updated
    anymore. You can ping the system, but not ssh into. There is no hard disk
    activity and everything that tries to access the hard disk seems to get stuck
    also. ssh'ing into the machine before starting the backup and using "tail -f
    /var/log/messages" doesn't give any output.

    After a reset when the SCSI controller BIOS inits it gets stuck when scanning
    ID2, which is the DVD-RAM drive. Only power cycling gets it to boot again. So
    I guess this device might be the problem. Though it's kinda annoying that the
    kernel gets stuck in this endless reset loop (or whatever happens at that
    time) needing to reset the box. Which also makes it practically impossible to
    debug this problem any further and definitely find out what the problem is.

    If anyone has further ideas I could try I'd be happy to hear about them. I
    only want to dump the drive if I can really be sure that it's broken.

    Thanks! :)

    Oliver 

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Oliver Feiler  <kiza@(kcore.de|lionking.org|gmx[pro].net)>

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