Re: [Fwd: AIC79XX abort -- hardware fault?]

James Bottomley
2006-12-12T16:39:43Z

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 08:18 -0800, Sean Bruno wrote:
> > G'day. One of the machines I maintain is having real trouble with the
> > AIC79XX HBA or the tape drive attached to it. I believe this is a
> > hardware fault, but I am not certain where the problem lies.
> >
> > Normally I would blame the cable or, maybe, the tape drive, but the
> > early stage of the fault and the reported SCSI driver state make me
> > wonder if this is perhaps an HBA fault?

The first question is what kernel version? There was an aic79xx fix
that went in just prior to 2.6.19 that might help with this.

James