Re: Scsi problems in 2.5.1-pre9

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Tue, Dec 11 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11 2001, Paul Larson wrote:
> > My hardware is a dual proc PII-300.  I was running LTP runalltests.sh
> > and it was on one of the growfiles tests when this problem occurred. 
> > The test hung, and I couldn't telnet into the machine or login to it,
> > but I could switch between VC's.  On the console, I had screenfulls of
> > errors like this:
> > 
> > Incorrect number of segments after building list
> > counted 11, received 7
> > req nr_sec 1024, cur_nr_sec 8
> > Incorrect number of segments after building list
> > counted 14, received 10
> > req nr_sec 1024, cur_nr_sec 8
> > Incorrect number of segments after building list
> > counted 13, received 11
> > req nr_sec 584, cur_nr_sec 8
> > Incorrect number of segments after building list
> > counted 2, received 1
> > req nr_sec 16, cur_nr_sec 8
> > Incorrect number of segments after building list
> > counted 2, received 1
> > req nr_sec 16, cur_nr_sec 8
> > (scsi0:A:5:0): Locking max tag count at 64
> > 
> > After doing a hard reboot ext2 made me do a manual fsck, but it seems ok
> > now.  I was not able to produce this error in 2.5.1-pre8.
> 
> Please don't tell me what hardware you have :-)

It seems to affect all SCSI drivers with CLUSTERING enabled. Don't worry
about data consistency btw, the above is a warning only (the right
segment count is used).

-- 
Jens Axboe