Re: Tekram 390U2W and 2.4.10

From: adrian (adrian@lostland.net)
Date: Sat Oct 06 2001 - 15:37:24 EST


Hello,

   That's what I seem to have read in the archives... I switched around
the cables and checked the termination, and all is well. Interestingly
enough, both 2.4.11-pre4 and 2.4.10-ac7 work fine. And, everything was
fine with all kernels when mounting a CDROM and reading, but it only
errored when it was directly accessed, like with dd. I could only guess
at what the real problem is... Thanks.

Regards,
Adrian

On 6 Oct 2001, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote:

> Hi Adrian!
>
> I have been using this card for years now (at least 3) and I have never had
> any problem under Windows (where I use the latest driver) or Linux. So,
> first thing with scsi, did you check your cables, terminations, etc...?
>
> Regards, Mathieu...
> adrian@lostland.net (adrian) writes:
>
> > Well, to follow up my own post, I've checked the archives and found people
> > having problems (not quite the same as mine) with Tekram 390U2Ws, but not
> > recently (but I didn't spot any fixes...). I went through the 2.4.10-prex
> > series and found that the last one that works for me is pre10. I looked
> > at the changes after pre10, and couldn't find anything I thought was the
> > culprit, but then again...
> >
> > Strangeness...
> >
> > Regards,
> > Adrian
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, adrian wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have a Tekram SCSI card I've been using for a while, and it's always
> > > had problems in Windows with the newest drivers from Tekram, but works
> > > fine with the generic NCR drivers in Windows. I've never had any problems
> > > with it in Linux until 2.4.10. If I try something like:
> > >
> > > # dd if=/dev/scd1 of=image.iso
> > >
> > > I get:
> > >
> > > scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of retries.
> > > SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
> > > ncr53c8xx_reset: pid=0 reset_flags=1 serial_number=0
> > > serial_number_at_timeout=0
> > > scsi0: device driver called scsi_done() for a synchronous reset.
> > > scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of retries.
> > > SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
> > > ncr53c8xx_reset: pid=0 reset_flags=1 serial_number=0
> > > serial_number_at_timeout=0
> > > scsi0: device driver called scsi_done() for a synchronous reset.
> > > SCSI cdrom error : host 0 channel 0 id 4 lun 0 return code = 27070000
> > > I/O error: dev 0b:01, sector 400
> > > scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of retries.
> > > SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
> > > ncr53c8xx_reset: pid=0 reset_flags=1 serial_number=0
> > > serial_number_at_timeout=0
> > > scsi0: device driver called scsi_done() for a synchronous reset.
> > > SCSI cdrom error : host 0 channel 0 id 4 lun 0 return code = 27070000
> > > I/O error: dev 0b:01, sector 402
> > > ncr53c895-0-<4,*>: FAST-20 SCSI 20.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 7)
> > > I/O error: dev 0b:01, sector 654
> > > I/O error: dev 0b:01, sector 400
> > >
> > > I've tried both NCR and SYMBIOS drivers, but same story. However, I can
> > > successfully mount partitions and CDROM's and copy data without errors.
> > > And, in 2.4.9, dd'ing works without problems. In Windows, the problem I
> > > had was that the SCSI bus would constantly reset itself every 5 or
> > > so seconds whenever a device was being access. I don't know if these
> > > problems are related, but I thought I'd mention it. I have tried moving
> > > the card to another system with a different motherboard, to satisfy
> > > curiosity. The problem still exists. I didn't notice any changes in the
> > > symbios or ncr drivers. Any ideas? Thanks.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Adrian
> > >
> > >
> > >
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