Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

From: John Stoffel (john_at_stoffel.org)
Date: 08/09/05

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    Date:	Tue, 9 Aug 2005 16:12:29 -0400
    To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
    
    

    >>>>> "James" == James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> writes:

    Thank you for looking into this with me, I really appreciate it. I'm
    kinda stumped why this suddenly started happening, but it could be
    hardware related of course...

    James> So basically the problem is on scsi1 with the tape device, which
    James> apparently negotiates only narrow async?

    It's not a performance problem, it's a lockup problem. I use bacula
    to make my backups using the DLT7000 as my media. But the tape drives
    hangs, it's hung now so that I can't do my backups.

    James> What do the domain validation messages say about this device?
    James> They should be in dmesg. I'm fairly certain that DLT tapes do
    James> better than narrow async.

    The drive should be able to do 10MBytes/sec to the interface, the
    drive itself can only do 5Mbytes/sec to the media, but with 2:1
    compression and an 8MB buffer on the drive, it likes to be fed data as
    quickly as it can.

    Here's the validation results for my two disks and tape drive:

      scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
              <Adaptec aic7890/91 Ultra2 SCSI adapter>
              aic7890/91: Ultra2 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs

       target0:0:0: asynchronous.
        Vendor: COMPAQ Model: HC01841729 Rev: 3208
        Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
      scsi0:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32
       target0:0:0: Beginning Domain Validation
       target0:0:0: wide asynchronous.
       target0:0:0: Domain Validation skipping write tests
       target0:0:0: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s ST (50 ns, offset 15)
       target0:0:0: Ending Domain Validation
        Vendor: COMPAQ Model: BD018222CA Rev: B016
        Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
       target0:0:1: asynchronous.
      scsi0:A:1:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32
       target0:0:1: Beginning Domain Validation
       target0:0:1: wide asynchronous.
       target0:0:1: Domain Validation skipping write tests
       target0:0:1: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s ST (50 ns, offset 63)
       target0:0:1: Ending Domain Validation
      scsi1 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
              <Adaptec aic7880 Ultra SCSI adapter>
              aic7880: Ultra Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs

        Vendor: SUN Model: DLT7000 Rev: 1E48
        Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
       target1:0:6: asynchronous.
       target1:0:6: Beginning Domain Validation
       target1:0:6: wide asynchronous.
       target1:0:6: Domain Validation skipping write tests
       target1:0:6: FAST-10 WIDE SCSI 20.0 MB/s ST (100 ns, offset 8)
       target1:0:6: Ending Domain Validation
      st: Version 20050501, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
      Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
      st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B), max page reachable by HBA 1048575
      SCSI device sda: 35566000 512-byte hdwr sectors (18210 MB)
      SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
      SCSI device sda: 35566000 512-byte hdwr sectors (18210 MB)
      SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
       sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 >
      Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
      SCSI device sdb: 35565080 512-byte hdwr sectors (18209 MB)
      SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write through
      SCSI device sdb: 35565080 512-byte hdwr sectors (18209 MB)
      SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write through
       sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4 < sdb5 >
      Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
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