From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon Burley Subject: Re: SCSI related kernel errors with 2.4 Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:12:38 +0000 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E5B4FA6.86BCA343@lipsyncpost.co.uk> References: <20030224204753.13977.qmail@solo.americom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: jeff@AmeriCom.com Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org jeff@AmeriCom.com wrote: > > We've been having crashes we think are related to the scsi driver, I have found other > people with the same problem by doing google searches. It happens to people burning > CD's, doing tape backups, and sometimes during normal operation. We never experienced > this problem with the 2.2 kernel. We tried updating the scsi driver to the latest > (6.2.28) and the only thing that changed is the error output is a little more > verbose. The tape drive and the hard drive are both on the same SCSI bus, let me know > and I can post full hardware specs. It seems when the machine is dead that the hard > disk is unaccessable, but I can ping the machine and do simple non-disk-accessing > tasks, its as if the scsi hard disk is offline. > > Is anybody aware of this bug? Should I bare with it for a while, or downgrade to 2.2? Jeffrey, I went through exactly the same thing about a year ago with a kernel upgrade on one of my machines. You havn't said which Adaptec you're using, but this setup was a 2940UW with one internal drive and one external drive. I can't explain this, but after ripping the box apart and checking termination on the internal drive, I found that it wasn't set. Setting it fixed the problem, as did reverting to a 2.2 kernel. Hope that helps a little. Sorry if it seems I'm teaching granny to suck eggs. Simon