Re: SCSI Warnings in 2.0.25

Jean-Francois Micouleau (Jean-Francois.Micouleau@utc.fr)
Tue, 3 Dec 1996 09:08:18 +0100 (MET)


On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Michael Nelson wrote:

>
> Noticing lots of these under 2.0.25, using Adaptec AHA2940 SCSI host
> adapter. These are brand new messages under this kernel version:
>
> scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 55794, scsi0, channel 0, id 0,
> lun 0 Read (6) 1d 01 d2 62 00
> aic7xxx: (abort) Aborting scb 1, TCL 0/0/0
> scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 55797, scsi0, channel 0, id 1,
> lun 0 Write (6) 06 80 2a 04 00
> aic7xxx: (abort) Aborting scb 2, TCL 1/0/0
> scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 55798, scsi0, channel 0, id 1,
> lun 0 Write (6) 06 80 32 04 00
> aic7xxx: (abort) Aborting scb 4, TCL 1/0/0
> scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 55796, scsi0, channel 0, id 0,
> lun 0 Write (6) 06 40 02 04 00
> aic7xxx: (abort) Aborting scb 3, TCL 0/0/0
>

I had the same thing with 4 seagate 1.5G drives
Things you should do:

- check all the cables, they should be the shorter you can
- Use an active terminator
- check the termination power on the disk

> ...and here's the dmesg stuff relating to scsi:
>
> aic7xxx: BurstLen = 8 DWDs, Latency Timer = 240 PCLKS
> aic7xxx: AHA-2940 Rev B.
> aic7xxx: devconfig = 0x500.
> aic7xxx: Reading SEEPROM...done.
> aic7xxx: Extended translation disabled.
> aic7xxx: Memory check yields 16 SCBs, paging not enabled.
> AHA-2940 (PCI-bus), I/O 0xf800, Mem 0xffbef000:
> irq 10
> bus release time 40 bclks
> data fifo threshold 100%
> SCSI CHANNEL A:
> scsi id 7
> scsi selection timeout 256 ms
> scsi bus reset at power-on enabled
> scsi bus parity enabled
> scsi bus termination (low byte) disabled
> aic7xxx: Downloading sequencer code...done.
> scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 4.0/3.2/4.0
> scsi : 1 host.
> scsi0: Scanning channel A for devices.
> scsi0: Target 0, channel A, now synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset 15.
> Vendor: IBM Model: DPES-31080 !t Rev: S31K
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> scsi0: Target 1, channel A, now synchronous at 4.4MHz, offset 15.
> Vendor: MAXTOR Model: LXT-340S Rev: 6.55
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS
> Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
> scsi0: Target 2, channel A, now synchronous at 4.0MHz, offset 15.
> Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-3601TA Rev: 0725
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
> scsi0: Target 4, channel A, now synchronous at 6.67MHz, offset 15.
> Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 28388-XXX Rev: 5.45
> Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
> scsi : detected 1 SCSI tape 1 SCSI cdrom 2 SCSI disks total.
> SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2118144 [1034 MB] [1.0 GB]
> SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 665154 [324 MB] [0.3 GB]
>
> Michael
>
> --
> Michael Nelson nelson@seahunt.imat.com
> San Francisco, CA
>

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