RE: Devices going offline on Adaptec 29320 using driver AIC79XX after messages "Attempting to queue an ABORT message:CDB"

From: Rhine, Jay \(Jay\)
Date: Tue Nov 18 2008 - 17:45:47 EST


> I'm having a problem with the devices on my Adaptec 29320 cards.
>My best guess is this a bug in the AIC79XX (and possible AIX7XXX)
device driver, possibly releated to SMP. However, I'm
>not really sure how to determine if that is really the case.
>
> Here's the scenario. I have an IBM System X 3400 server with 3
Adaptec SCSI Cards - Adaptec 29320LPE PCIe Ultra320
> SCSI adapter, Adaptec 29320ALP PCIx Ultra320 SCSI adapter, and Adaptec
2944 Ultra SCSI adapter (as well as some other
> cards unrelated to this problem - an LSI SAS Card, Emulex Fiber
Channel Card, an Intel SATA Controller, and an Intel 4
> Port Ethernet card). The system has 2 Intel E5405 2.00GHz Quad-Core
processors. I'm running Centos 5.2. This system
>is running in SMP mode. I've seen this problem on the most recent
Centos5.2 kernels, 2.6.18-92.1.17.el5PAE and
> 2.6.18-92.1.13.el5PAE. As of this morning, I'm on
2.6.18-92.1.18.el5PAE (so will see this issue there shortly). The
>logs in this email are from the 2.6.18-92.1.13.el5PAE kernel.

Okay, I just wanted to add that I've just verified that this problem
also occurs in 2.6.27 and 2.6.28-rc5. I did not try 2.6.27.6 as there
are no changes in aic79xx driver between 2.6.27 and 2.6.27.6.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Jay

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