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From: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
To: Kilian CAVALOTTI <kilian.cavalotti@lip6.fr>
Cc: dougg@torque.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: aic7xxx support for >2TB volumes?
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:48:11 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4381DE2B.8060509@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511211109.19490.kilian.cavalotti@lip6.fr>

Kilian CAVALOTTI wrote:
> On Monday 21 November 2005 05:53, you wrote:
> 
>>I don't think slave_configure is the right place to be modifying
>>a scsi_host attribute. How about this patch instead? Only compile
>>tested.
> 
> 
> Patch applied on 2.6.15-rc2, and gives no better result:
> 
> # sg_readcap -16 -vv /dev/sdb
>     read capacity (16) cdb: 9e 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00 00
> READ CAPACITY 16 command error: Host_status=0x0b [DID_SOFT_ERROR]
> 
> dmesg output:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:04.0[A] -> GSI 106 (level, low) -> IRQ 25
> scsi3 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 7.0
>         <Adaptec 3960D Ultra160 SCSI adapter>
>         aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
> 
>   Vendor: IFT       Model: A16U-G1410        Rev: 342J
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
> scsi3:A:4:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 32
>  target3:0:4: Beginning Domain Validation
>  target3:0:4: wide asynchronous.
>  target3:0:4: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s DT (12.5 ns, offset 127)
>  target3:0:4: Ending Domain Validation
> sdc : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16).
> (scsi3:A:4:0): No or incomplete CDB sent to device.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Protocol violation in Message-in phase.  Attempting to abort.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Abort Tag Message Sent
> (scsi3:A:4:0): SCB 3 - Abort Tag Completed.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): No or incomplete CDB sent to device.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Protocol violation in Message-in phase.  Attempting to abort.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Abort Tag Message Sent
> (scsi3:A:4:0): SCB 2 - Abort Tag Completed.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): No or incomplete CDB sent to device.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Protocol violation in Message-in phase.  Attempting to abort.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Abort Tag Message Sent
> (scsi3:A:4:0): SCB 3 - Abort Tag Completed.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): No or incomplete CDB sent to device.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Protocol violation in Message-in phase.  Attempting to abort.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Abort Tag Message Sent
> (scsi3:A:4:0): SCB 2 - Abort Tag Completed.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): No or incomplete CDB sent to device.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Protocol violation in Message-in phase.  Attempting to abort.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Abort Tag Message Sent
> (scsi3:A:4:0): SCB 3 - Abort Tag Completed.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): No or incomplete CDB sent to device.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Protocol violation in Message-in phase.  Attempting to abort.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Abort Tag Message Sent
> (scsi3:A:4:0): SCB 2 - Abort Tag Completed.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): No or incomplete CDB sent to device.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Protocol violation in Message-in phase.  Attempting to abort.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Abort Tag Message Sent
> (scsi3:A:4:0): SCB 3 - Abort Tag Completed.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): No or incomplete CDB sent to device.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Protocol violation in Message-in phase.  Attempting to abort.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Abort Tag Message Sent
> (scsi3:A:4:0): SCB 2 - Abort Tag Completed.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): No or incomplete CDB sent to device.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Protocol violation in Message-in phase.  Attempting to abort.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Abort Tag Message Sent
> (scsi3:A:4:0): SCB 3 - Abort Tag Completed.
> sdc : READ CAPACITY(16) failed.
> sdc : status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00
> sdc : use 0xffffffff as device size
> SCSI device sdc: 4294967296 512-byte hdwr sectors (2199023 MB)
> SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back
> sdc : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16).
> (scsi3:A:4:0): No or incomplete CDB sent to device.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Protocol violation in Message-in phase.  Attempting to abort.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Abort Tag Message Sent
> (scsi3:A:4:0): SCB 2 - Abort Tag Completed.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): No or incomplete CDB sent to device.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Protocol violation in Message-in phase.  Attempting to abort.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Abort Tag Message Sent
> (scsi3:A:4:0): SCB 3 - Abort Tag Completed.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): No or incomplete CDB sent to device.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Protocol violation in Message-in phase.  Attempting to abort.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Abort Tag Message Sent
> (scsi3:A:4:0): SCB 2 - Abort Tag Completed.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): No or incomplete CDB sent to device.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Protocol violation in Message-in phase.  Attempting to abort.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Abort Tag Message Sent
> (scsi3:A:4:0): SCB 3 - Abort Tag Completed.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): No or incomplete CDB sent to device.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Protocol violation in Message-in phase.  Attempting to abort.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Abort Tag Message Sent
> (scsi3:A:4:0): SCB 2 - Abort Tag Completed.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): No or incomplete CDB sent to device.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Protocol violation in Message-in phase.  Attempting to abort.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Abort Tag Message Sent
> (scsi3:A:4:0): SCB 3 - Abort Tag Completed.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): No or incomplete CDB sent to device.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Protocol violation in Message-in phase.  Attempting to abort.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Abort Tag Message Sent
> (scsi3:A:4:0): SCB 2 - Abort Tag Completed.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): No or incomplete CDB sent to device.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Protocol violation in Message-in phase.  Attempting to abort.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Abort Tag Message Sent
> (scsi3:A:4:0): SCB 3 - Abort Tag Completed.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): No or incomplete CDB sent to device.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Protocol violation in Message-in phase.  Attempting to abort.
> (scsi3:A:4:0): Abort Tag Message Sent
> (scsi3:A:4:0): SCB 2 - Abort Tag Completed.
> sdc : READ CAPACITY(16) failed.
> sdc : status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00
> sdc : use 0xffffffff as device size
> SCSI device sdc: 4294967296 512-byte hdwr sectors (2199023 MB)
> SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back
>  sdc: sdc1
> sd 3:0:4:0: Attached scsi disk sdc
> sd 3:0:4:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Does this mean the HBA has an hardware limit?

Quite possibly. Looking at ahc_linux_run_command in aic7xxx_osm.c it appears
that commands with a cdb length of > 12 are sent to the adapter in a different way.
Perhaps this method does not work on the card you have. 


-- 
Brian King
eServer Storage I/O
IBM Linux Technology Center

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-21 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-16 11:08 aic7xxx support for >2TB volumes? Kilian CAVALOTTI
2005-11-18  8:59 ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-11-18 12:55   ` Kilian CAVALOTTI
2005-11-18 15:01     ` Brian King
2005-11-18 23:05       ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-11-19  1:32         ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-11-19 14:57           ` Kilian CAVALOTTI
2005-11-20  1:33             ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-11-21 10:40               ` Kilian CAVALOTTI
2005-11-19 14:37         ` Kilian CAVALOTTI
2005-11-21  4:53         ` Brian King
2005-11-21 10:09           ` Kilian CAVALOTTI
2005-11-21 14:48             ` Brian King [this message]
2005-11-21 15:09               ` Kilian CAVALOTTI
2005-11-21 15:27                 ` Brian King

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