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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
To: "Wu, Gilbert" <Gilbert_Wu@adaptec.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Alexis Bruemmer <alexisb@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: Update Aic94xx SAS/SATA Linux open source devicedriver for new sequence firmware.
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:32:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45CBB2F2.5030504@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <89FD792A883D4B47AD469FEA2E5D1F9B0F59E8@aime2k302.adaptec.com>

Wu, Gilbert wrote:
> Hi Darrick,
> 
>  We can duplicate the problem here. The aic94xx with V28 passed IO
> testing overnight if we apply IO directly to /dev/sd?.  But it fails
> very quickly when we create a partition and format it as ext3. The V17
> sequencer works fine with both cases. We are looking into it and find
> the root cause ASAP.

This may be fairly self evident by now, but it looks like the sequencer
for the link (LSEQ, I think?) is somehow locking up, which explains why
the scsi_cmnds start timing out and after that all commands (stp, phy
control, etc) time out as well.  The other drives continue operating
normally, so I don't think the central sequencer isn't borked up.

Then again, you guys at Adaptec have the sequencer source code works and
I don't, so I can't do much more than make vague guesses. Oh well :(

--D

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-08 23:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-30 23:31 [PATCH] scsi: Update Aic94xx SAS/SATA Linux open source device driver for new sequence firmware Wu, Gilbert
2007-01-31  9:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-31 16:56   ` James Bottomley
2007-01-31 19:32     ` Luben Tuikov
2007-02-03 22:28 ` James Bottomley
2007-02-06 19:02   ` [PATCH] scsi: Update Aic94xx SAS/SATA Linux open source devicedriver " Wu, Gilbert
2007-02-07  9:11     ` Darrick J. Wong
2007-02-07 21:54       ` Wu, Gilbert
2007-02-08 23:32         ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2007-02-09  2:24           ` Wu, Gilbert
2007-02-07 22:57       ` Mark Rustad

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