Re: What breaks aic7xxx in post 2.6.12-rc2 ? (fixed in 2.6.12-rc6 with patches)

Gregoire Favre
2005-06-14T09:28:21Z

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 09:20:22PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:

> Actually, I think the problem is that the DVD-Rom thinks it can run at
> 20 but actually can't

You are almost certainly right : setting the speed in BIOS back to 20
and I can't boot, but I can with 16 :-)

> Well ... look at it this way ... if no-one finds anything wrong with the
> patches, they'll be going straight into the kernel tree after 2.6.12, so
> I trust them as much as that ...

I will test it for a few days like right now, and I have now set all
speed back to full (except for the DVD) :

scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
<Adaptec 29160B Ultra160 SCSI adapter>
aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs

target0:0:0: SC IS ffff81003fcaeac0
target0:0:0: ULTRA2, flags 0xc33a
target0:0:0: scsirate IS 0x2, min_period is 9, flags 0xc33a
Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-39130D Rev: DC1B
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
target0:0:0: asynchronous.
scsi0:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 253
target0:0:0: Beginning Domain Validation
target0:0:0: wide asynchronous.
target0:0:0: Domain Validation skipping write tests
target0:0:0: FAST-40 WIDE SCSI 80.0 MB/s ST (25 ns, offset 15)
target0:0:0: Ending Domain Validation
...
target0:0:15: SC IS ffff81003fcaeac0
target0:0:15: ULTRA2, flags 0xc13a
target0:0:15: scsirate IS 0x2, min_period is 9, flags 0xc13a
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST336706LW Rev: 0108
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
target0:0:15: asynchronous.
scsi0:A:15:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 253
target0:0:15: Beginning Domain Validation
target0:0:15: wide asynchronous.
target0:0:15: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s ST (12.5 ns, offset 63)
target0:0:15: Ending Domain Validation
scsi1 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
<Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter>
aic7880: Ultra Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs

target1:0:0: SC IS ffff81003fcae980
target1:0:0: scsirate IS 0x0, min_period is 12, flags 0xc158
target1:0:1: SC IS ffff81003fcae980
target1:0:1: scsirate IS 0x10, min_period is 15, flags 0xc159
target1:0:1: asynchronous.
Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: DVD-ROM SD-M1201 Rev: 1R08
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
target1:0:1: Beginning Domain Validation
target1:0:1: Domain Validation skipping write tests
target1:0:1: FAST-20 SCSI 16.7 MB/s ST (60 ns, offset 15)
target1:0:1: Ending Domain Validation
target1:0:2: SC IS ffff81003fcae980
target1:0:2: scsirate IS 0x0, min_period is 12, flags 0xc158
target1:0:2: asynchronous.
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-R820T Rev: 1.08
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
target1:0:2: Beginning Domain Validation
target1:0:2: Domain Validation skipping write tests
target1:0:2: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s ST (100 ns, offset 8)
target1:0:2: Ending Domain Validation
target1:0:3: SC IS ffff81003fcae980
target1:0:3: scsirate IS 0x0, min_period is 12, flags 0xc158
target1:0:3: asynchronous.
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-R820T Rev: 1.08
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
target1:0:3: Beginning Domain Validation
target1:0:3: Domain Validation skipping write tests
target1:0:3: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s ST (100 ns, offset 8)
target1:0:3: Ending Domain Validation

Thank you very much !!!
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Gr\'egoire Favre