From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263836AbTLXVAb (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:00:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263850AbTLXVAb (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:00:31 -0500 Received: from user-119ahgg.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.70.16]:7841 "EHLO mail.home") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263836AbTLXVA3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:00:29 -0500 From: Eric To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.6.0 and VMWare Buslogic Error? Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 15:00:27 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.94 Cc: lnz@dandelion.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200312241500.27156.eric@cisu.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, When booting the linux kernel 2.6.0 (and since 2.6.0-test9 when I started using 2.6) I am not sure if I get it using 2.4 However my vague memory says no.. I get this message on startup. I am using VMWare Workstation 4.0.5 build 6030. scsi: ***** BusLogic SCSI Driver Version 2.1.16 of 18 July 2002 ***** scsi: Copyright 1995-1998 by Leonard N. Zubkoff ERROR: SCSI host `BusLogic' has no error handling ERROR: This is not a safe way to run your SCSI host ERROR: The error handling must be added to this driver Call Trace: [] scsi_host_alloc+0x77/0x288 [] scsi_register+0x10/0x51 [] BusLogic_DetectHostAdapter+0x1ae/0x32e [] init_this_scsi_driver+0x51/0xce [] do_initcalls+0x2c/0x7a [] init+0x58/0x13d [] init+0x0/0x13d [] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb scsi0: Configuring BusLogic Model BT-958 PCI Wide Ultra SCSI Host Adapter scsi0: Firmware Version: 5.07B, I/O Address: 0x1060, IRQ Channel: 17/Level scsi0: PCI Bus: 0, Device: 16, Address: 0xF4000000, Host Adapter SCSI ID: 7 scsi0: Parity Checking: Enabled, Extended Translation: Enabled scsi0: Synchronous Negotiation: Ultra, Wide Negotiation: Enabled scsi0: Disconnect/Reconnect: Enabled, Tagged Queuing: Enabled scsi0: Scatter/Gather Limit: 128 of 8192 segments, Mailboxes: 211 scsi0: Driver Queue Depth: 211, Host Adapter Queue Depth: 192 scsi0: Tagged Queue Depth: Automatic, Untagged Queue Depth: 3 scsi0: Error Recovery Strategy: Default, SCSI Bus Reset: Enabled scsi0: *** BusLogic BT-958 Initialized Successfully *** scsi0 : BusLogic BT-958 Vendor: VMware, Model: VMware Virtual S Rev: 1.0 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 SCSI device sda: 12582912 512-byte hdwr sectors (6442 MB) sda: asking for cache data failed sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: sda1 I have been running my VMMachines for a while now so I dont think theres a huge problem. But should I be worried? Am I just lucky my data hasnt been corrupted by this unsafe mode? Is this being fixed in a future version or 2.6? Would you like more debugging info to support this variant of the Buslogic controller better? Just a curios side-note... what the HECK are mailboxes relating to this scsi driver?! I know what most of the other parameters are, but I cant figure out what a mailbox could be in a scsi driver. I am on the LKML, however I prefer to have replies CC'd to me. I notice them MUCH faster. ------------------------- Eric Bambach Eric at cisu dot net -------------------------