Re: SCSI related hang on boot

From: Kai OM (epimetreus_at_fastmail.fm)
Date: 06/20/04

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    Date:	Sun, 20 Jun 2004 16:50:04 -0500
    
    

    I've got an LSIU160 controller, which means that it has two actual
    controllers, an exterior and an interior one.
    The exterior one is disabled in the controller's BIOS, because I have no
    use for it.
    The interior on is terminated immediately after the drive I have
    connected to it.
    I'm wondering if the driver is somehow ignoring(at least in my case)
    fact that the disabled controller is, in fact, disabled, and is getting
    thrown off because I never bothered to buy a terminator for it, when
    it's not supposed to ever be active.
    I'm not a SCSI expert, though, so I'm prolly wrong.

    ----- Original message -----
    From: "Ron Day" <ronmon@bellsouth.net>
    To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
    Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 12:11:01 -0400
    Subject: Re: SCSI related hang on boot

    Please CC me on this, since I'm not a list member.

    I've been following this thread and hoping for an answer. The problem
    I'm having, as well as my hardware, is very similar to this.

    For the record, my equipment:

    ASUS A7M-266D, 2 x Athlon MP1800+, 1024MB ECC registered

    Tekram DC-390U3W, Symbios Logic (LSI) 53c1010 chipset.
            Running for 2+ years with sym53c8xx_2 driver. It
            replaced a Fireport40 that ran for 2-3 years with
            the same driver and the earlier sym53c8xx (v1)
            with older/slower/smaller HDD's.

    Bus0, terminated in-line after second HDD
    2 x U160 HDD's, id 0 and 1 (2+ years running)

    Bus1, terminated in-line at scanner
    An internal Yamaha SCSI CD-RW, id 2 (3-4 years running)
    A UMAX S-12 scanner, id 5 (8+ years running)

    Everything goes as expected through sym0, where the
    two HDD's reside, but problems arise at sym1. Compared
    to successful dmesg output, it seems that the scanner
    (and hence the termination for that bus) is not seen.

    My conclusion is that sym2.1.18i works and sym2.1.18j
    does not. I say this because I have made a copy of the
    drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2 directory from 2.6.5 (the latest
    that I'm aware of with the .i drivers). By replacing the
    files in current kernels with these, I have compiled and
    run several newer versions sucessfully, the latest being
    2.6.7, which I'm running now.

    Rather than post everything here, I'll link to some files that should be
    relevant.

    The error (written down and typed in, no serial console):
    http://ronmon.shacknet.nu/configs/scsi_boot_error

    Output from a good dmesg (sym2.1.18.i driver):
    http://ronmon.shacknet.nu/configs/dmesg_good-2.6.7-rc3

    Brief system layout courtesy of phpsysinfo:
    http://ronmon.shacknet.nu/phpsysinfo/

    Output from 'lspci -vvx':
    http://ronmon.shacknet.nu/configs/lspci-vvx
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