Re: aic7xxx errors with 2.4.8-ac7 on 440gx mobo

From: Justin T. Gibbs (gibbs@scsiguy.com)
Date: Mon Aug 20 2001 - 16:45:54 EST


>> And here they are, the dmesg is my bootup dmesg with the devices drivers
>> and stuff, and the second dmesg is the actual errors (verbose turned on)
>
>Some more research pointed out that the errors/lock of the scsi bus always
>appears about 20 seconds after kernel load when i cold boot the machine.
>With a warm boot the machine gives these errors/lock at random times.

IIRC, the problem has to do with the state of the write cache in the drive.
The cache will be in a different state after power-on as compared to
after some amount of activity.

--
Justin
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