Re: Adaptec 29320LPE errors on boot

James Bottomley
2008-03-05T15:55:28Z

On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 12:42 -0300, Rodrigo Severo wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I have this Adaptec 29320LPE SCSI board (used the aic79xx driver)
> which give several errors during boot time, just after it recognizes
> the HDs connected to it.
>
> If I remove the SCSI HD there are no SCSI errors.
>
> The very first error messages have scrolled up and I don't know how to
> get to them (is there a way?)

If you can get it to boot (say to a ramdisk with a shell) then dmesg
gives them ... otherwise you need a serial console.

> but here is the transcript of what I can
> see:
>
> scsi0: hwerrint, Sequencer Parity Error
> scsi0: hwerrint, Data-path Parity Error
> scsi0: hwerrint, Scratch or SCB Memory Parity Error
> scsi0: hwerrint, CIOBUS Parity Error

That's a pretty comprehensive sequence of parity errors. Assuming
they're the root cause rather than something caused by the first error:
best case, you just need a better cable or termination; worst case, your
card is actually hosed in its internal data path.

James