Re: Asus CUV4X-DLS

Re: Asus CUV4X-DLS

[J. Nick Koston]

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   I thought it was ok with a 2.4.5-ac kernel however it started
acting up again today giving more i/o errors.  I think I'm just going
to give up on these boards as I have 3 of them doing the exact same
thing.  However they are flawless in up mode.

         Nick

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 04:11:32AM -0400, Chris Siebenmann wrote:
> Envelope-to: nick@burst.net
> Delivery-date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 04:11:14 -0400
> To:	nick@burst.net ("J. Nick Koston")
> Subject: Re: Asus CUV4X-DLS
> X-Newsgroups: mail.linux.kernel
> In-Reply-To: <mail.linux.kernel/20010627233541.A32271@burst.net>
> Organization: Ziebmef home away from home
> Date:	Thu, 28 Jun 2001 04:11:32 -0400
> From:	Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca>
> 
> You write:
> | Anyways in case anyone is curious the i/o problem still happens
> | with an aic7xxx card put in and the onboard scsi disabled.
> 
>  That's odd; our CUV4X-DLS is stable with PCI Adaptec cards in (but the
> onboard Symbios controllers have problems). We're running various -ac
> kernels (2.4.5-ac18 right now), SMP, etc. We currently have three SCSI
> channels and two disks per channel, and it's surviving the VA Linux
> stress tests quite handily.
> 
> ---
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> cks@utcc.toronto.edu		   				    utgpu!cks

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Asus CUV4X-DLS

[J. Nick Koston]

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There seems to be a major problem with this board and 2.4.x kernels.
I consistantly get SCSI Input/Output errors on multiple drives that I
know are good when running a SMP kernel.  These errors do no happen
with a UP kernel.  This is happening on multiple systems and with
multiple know good scsi drives of all speeds and sizes.

Test#1:

2.4.2 (redhat 7.1 version)

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null
(fails with input/output error)

Test #2:

2.4.2 (redhat 7.1 version)
noapic on boot

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null
(fails with input/output error)

Test #3:

2.4.2 (redhat 7.1 edition)

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null
PASS!


               Nick







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Re: Asus CUV4X-DLS

[J. Nick Koston]

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Thanks for the tips, however it doesn't help :-(

Anyways in case anyone is curious the i/o problem still happens
with an aic7xxx card put in and the onboard scsi disabled.

[snip] 
> "J. Nick Koston" wrote:
> > 
> > There seems to be a major problem with this board and 2.4.x kernels.
> > I consistantly get SCSI Input/Output errors on multiple drives that I
> > know are good when running a SMP kernel.  These errors do no happen
> > with a UP kernel.  This is happening on multiple systems and with
> > multiple know good scsi drives of all speeds and sizes.
> 
> Make sure you have the latest BIOS upgrade and set the MPS revision in
> the BIOS to 1.1 rather than 1.4. This cured a similar issue for me and
> USB on the CUV4X-D motherboard, but as your board is different, your
> mileage may vary.

Already set at 1.1
> 
> Also, try passing "noapic" to the kernel on boot if the problem still
> persists. The downside is that all interrupts will be handled by a
> single CPU. There is a definite problem with VIA chipsets.
> 
Tried this as well (mentioned in my original email)

> John

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Re: Asus CUV4X-DLS

[John Cavan]

"J. Nick Koston" wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the tips, however it doesn't help :-(

It was worth a shot...

> > Also, try passing "noapic" to the kernel on boot if the problem still
> > persists. The downside is that all interrupts will be handled by a
> > single CPU. There is a definite problem with VIA chipsets.
> >
> Tried this as well (mentioned in my original email)

I realized that after I sent the message. Doh!

I have an AIC7xxxx based SCSI card in my machine as well, hooked up to a
Jaz. I haven't actually used it in ages, but I'll test it to see of the
problem is apparent on CUV4X-D board as well.

John

Re: Asus CUV4X-DLS

[John Cavan]

John Cavan wrote:
> I have an AIC7xxxx based SCSI card in my machine as well, hooked up to a
> Jaz. I haven't actually used it in ages, but I'll test it to see of the
> problem is apparent on CUV4X-D board as well.

First, I copied 640 Mb file to the jaz disk, no problem. Then I ran the
same commands you did, also no problem...

That would imply, at least, that the SCSI drivers are not at fault here.

John

Re: Asus CUV4X-DLS

[J. Nick Koston]

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   It seems to be ok with 2.4.5-ac19, so I guess I'll just wait for
2.4.6 and hope that resolves it for good.

         Nick

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 08:27:17AM -0400, John Cavan wrote:
> Envelope-to: nick@burst.net
> Delivery-date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 08:26:20 -0400
> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 08:27:17 -0400
> From: John Cavan <johnc@damncats.org>
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> To: "J. Nick Koston" <nick@burst.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Asus CUV4X-DLS
> 
> John Cavan wrote:
> > I have an AIC7xxxx based SCSI card in my machine as well, hooked up to a
> > Jaz. I haven't actually used it in ages, but I'll test it to see of the
> > problem is apparent on CUV4X-D board as well.
> 
> First, I copied 640 Mb file to the jaz disk, no problem. Then I ran the
> same commands you did, also no problem...
> 
> That would imply, at least, that the SCSI drivers are not at fault here.
> 
> John

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