one of our production servers was working fine with a NCR53c810 SCSI
controller but because of a power supply failure (after 75 days of up
time) we ended replacing the old server with a new machine with an
AHA-2940 Ultra SCSI adapter. The old NCR53c810 didn't have any
problems handlingthe two SCSI disks and the H-P SureStore 2000 tape
drive.
The aic7xxx, however is having problems with the tape drive (SCSI
disks are just fine). When I do a "tar cf /dev/st0 /home", for
example, I get the kernel error messages below.
My questions are:
1) Should I upgrade to 2.0.32 to see if the tape problems are solved
with the latest version of the aic7xxx driver?
2) Can I stay with 2.0.30 but with the latest version of the aic7xxx
driver? Is this something bad? I am asking because 2.0.30 is rock
solid for me, and I don't like the horror stories I've heard about
2.0.31.
3) Where's the latest version of the aicxxx driver?
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
E.-
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 38195, scsi0, channel 0,
id 0, lun
0 Write (6) 06 5f fd 02 00
aic7xxx: (abort) Aborting scb 1, TCL 0/0/0
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 38196, scsi0, channel 0,
id 0, lun
0 Write (6) 0a df e9 02 00
aic7xxx: (abort) Aborting scb 0, TCL 0/0/0
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 60580, scsi0, channel 0,
id 0, lun
0 Write (6) 01 c0 65 02 00
aic7xxx: (abort) Aborting scb 2, TCL 0/0/0
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 60581, scsi0, channel 0,
id 0, lun
0 Write (10) 00 00 20 b1 26 00 00 02 00
aic7xxx: (abort) Aborting scb 0, TCL 0/0/0
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 60580, scsi0, channel 0,
id 0, lun
0 Write (6) 01 c0 65 02 00
aic7xxx: (abort) Aborting scb 2, TCL 0/0/0
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 60580) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
aic7xxx: (reset) target/channel 0/0
aic7xxx: (abort_reset) scb state 0x1, Command phase, SCSISIGI = 0x84
aic7xxx: (abort_scb) asserted ATN - bus device reset in message
buffer.
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 60581, scsi0, channel 0,
id 0, lun
0 Write (10) 00 00 20 b1 26 00 00 02 00
aic7xxx: (abort) Aborting scb 0, TCL 0/0/0
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 60581) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
aic7xxx: (reset) target/channel 0/0
aic7xxx: (abort_reset) scb state 0x1, Message-Out phase, SCSISIGI =
0xa4
aic7xxx: (abort_scb) asserted ATN - bus device reset in message
buffer.
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 60579, scsi0, channel 0,
id 4, lun
0 Rezero Unit 00 00 00 00 00
aic7xxx: (abort) Aborting scb 1, TCL 4/0/0
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