From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (971110.SGI.8.8.8/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via SMTP id EAA119633 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 04:10:44 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id EAA16365 for linux-list; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 04:04:53 -0800 Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id EAA16359 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 04:04:46 -0800 Received: from mdhill.interlog.com (mdhill.interlog.com [199.212.154.112]) by sgi.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/970507) via ESMTP id EAA15665 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 04:04:43 -0800 env-from (mike@mdhill.interlog.com) Received: (from mike@localhost) by mdhill.interlog.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) id HAA01401; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 07:01:24 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 07:01:24 -0500 Message-Id: <199801131201.HAA01401@mdhill.interlog.com> From: Michael Hill MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Hard Drive Problems X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 20.3 "Vatican City" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: mdhill@interlog.com Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk The good news is that Andrew O'Brien's "noL2" kernel gets me all the way to the SCSI detection phase. Unfortunately, my chosen hard drive doesn't seem to want to run while connected to my Indy. I'll describe the symptoms in the hope that someone may recognize something; otherwise I'll retire the drive to x86 Linux duty, where it seems to work without complaints. It's a Quantum ProDrive 1050s, and was the first external drive I purchased from my SGI dealer (1994). It worked well under IRIX 5.2 but (and this may be a coincidence) problems started after I upgraded to 5.3. I'm now running 6.2 and the problems are the same. While starting IRIX, I get the following: The system is coming up. WARNING: wd93 SCSI Bus=0 ID=3 LUN=0: SCSI cmd=0x12 timeout after 30 sec. Resetting SCSI bus WARNING: wd93 SCSI Bus=0 ID=3 LUN=0: SCSI cmd=0x1a timeout after 60 sec. Resetting SCSI bus WARNING: wd93 SCSI Bus=0 ID=3 LUN=0: SCSI cmd=0x12 timeout after 60 sec. Resetting SCSI bus WARNING: wd93 SCSI Bus=0 ID=3 LUN=0: SCSI cmd=0x2a timeout after 60 sec. Resetting SCSI bus at which point I lose patience and power off the drive; IRIX startup resumes. I prepared the drive for SGI/Linux, installing root-be-0.00 from x86 Linux. While booting vmlinux, I get the following: WD93: Driver version 1.25 compiled on Jan 7 1998 at 14:54:14 debug_flags=0x00 wd33c93-0: chip=WD33c93B/13 no_sync=0Xff no_dma=0scsi0 : SGI WD93 scsi : 1 host. sending SDTR 0103013f0csync_xfer=2c Vendor: SGI Model: IBMDSAS-3540 Rev: S47K Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 sending SDTR -REJ- Vendor: INSITE Model: I325VM *F Rev: 0387 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS Detected scsi removable disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Unlocked floptical drive. sending SDTR 0103013f0csync_xfer=2cscsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 7, scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 Inquiry 00 00 scsi0: Aborting connected command 7 - stopping DMA - sending wd33c93 ABORT command - flushing fifo - asr - 20, sr=ff, 16777215 by - sending wd33c93 DISCONNECT command - asr = 20, sr=18. If I can't get the drive to go any further, I'll press it back into service as my x86 Linux system drive, where it has worked for over a year. That leaves me stuck at the moment for an SGI/Linux test drive. Thanks, Mike -- Michael Hill Toronto, Canada mdhill@interlog.com