3ware: no cards found in 2.2.19, cards found in 2.4.x

3ware: no cards found in 2.2.19, cards found in 2.4.x

[Brian Strand]

I have a quad xeon 2GB system running Oracle which I am reverting to 
2.2.x because of 2.4.x's less than desirable VM performance (causing a 
2x Oracle slowdown, reported about a month ago on linux-kernel).  I 
foolishly put a 3ware card in at the same time as I "upgraded" the box 
to 2.4.4, so now I am in the undesirable position of needing to go back 
to 2.2.19, but that kernel cannot find the card.  I get the following 
message during boot:

3w-xxxx: tw_find_cards(): No cards found
/lib/moduless/2.2.19-2GB-SMP/scsi/3w-xxxx.o: init_module: Device or 
resource busy

I have tried compiling the 3ware driver version 1.02.00.{004,006,007} 
all with the same result.  Has anyone managed to use a Suse 2.2.19 
kernel with 3ware cards with any success?  The 1.02.00.004 driver is 
from the stock 2.2.19 kernel, the .006 driver is from 3ware's website, 
and the .007 driver is from 2.2.20pre9.

Any hints appreciated,
Brian Strand
CTO Switch Management

Re: 3ware: no cards found in 2.2.19, cards found in 2.4.x

[David Ford]

I first suggest that you try kernel 2.4.9 or the latest of 2.4.8-acN.

David

Brian Strand wrote:

> I have a quad xeon 2GB system running Oracle which I am reverting to 
> 2.2.x because of 2.4.x's less than desirable VM performance (causing a 
> 2x Oracle slowdown, reported about a month ago on linux-kernel).  I 
> foolishly put a 3ware card in at the same time as I "upgraded" the box 
> to 2.4.4, so now I am in the undesirable position of needing to go 
> back to 2.2.19, but that kernel cannot find the card.  I get the 
> following message during boot:
>
> 3w-xxxx: tw_find_cards(): No cards found
> /lib/moduless/2.2.19-2GB-SMP/scsi/3w-xxxx.o: init_module: Device or 
> resource busy
>
> I have tried compiling the 3ware driver version 1.02.00.{004,006,007} 
> all with the same result.  Has anyone managed to use a Suse 2.2.19 
> kernel with 3ware cards with any success?  The 1.02.00.004 driver is 
> from the stock 2.2.19 kernel, the .006 driver is from 3ware's website, 
> and the .007 driver is from 2.2.20pre9.

Re: 3ware: no cards found in 2.2.19, cards found in 2.4.x

[Brian Strand]

Do either of these kernels fix the "2.4.x VM suckage" problems?  I don't 
want to use a 2.4.x kernel because Oracle runs almost 2x slower (with 
identical hardware config) on 2.4.4 and 2.4.6 versus 2.2.16 (and I have 
4G of swap for 2G of physical mem, so that is not the problem), not to 
mention that one of these 2.4.x kernels caused Oracle corruption.  I 
don't feel so comfortable testing new kernels with several hundred GBs 
of customer data anymore :) .

David Ford wrote:

> I first suggest that you try kernel 2.4.9 or the latest of 2.4.8-acN.
>
> David
>
> Brian Strand wrote:
>
>> I have a quad xeon 2GB system running Oracle which I am reverting to 
>> 2.2.x because of 2.4.x's less than desirable VM performance (causing 
>> a 2x Oracle slowdown, reported about a month ago on linux-kernel).  I 
>> foolishly put a 3ware card in at the same time as I "upgraded" the 
>> box to 2.4.4, so now I am in the undesirable position of needing to 
>> go back to 2.2.19, but that kernel cannot find the card.  I get the 
>> following message during boot:
>>
>> 3w-xxxx: tw_find_cards(): No cards found
>> /lib/moduless/2.2.19-2GB-SMP/scsi/3w-xxxx.o: init_module: Device or 
>> resource busy
>>
>> I have tried compiling the 3ware driver version 1.02.00.{004,006,007} 
>> all with the same result.  Has anyone managed to use a Suse 2.2.19 
>> kernel with 3ware cards with any success?  The 1.02.00.004 driver is 
>> from the stock 2.2.19 kernel, the .006 driver is from 3ware's 
>> website, and the .007 driver is from 2.2.20pre9.
>

Re: 3ware: no cards found in 2.2.19, cards found in 2.4.x

[David Ford]

Both of these address the VM issues.  I won't say VM is perfect, but you 
can't know if it works better for you like it does for me until you try 
it.  Upgrading a kernel is a pretty quick and painless job.  As to the 
corruption, I don't see enough below to make a start as to the cause.

David

Brian Strand wrote:

> Do either of these kernels fix the "2.4.x VM suckage" problems?  I 
> don't want to use a 2.4.x kernel because Oracle runs almost 2x slower 
> (with identical hardware config) on 2.4.4 and 2.4.6 versus 2.2.16 (and 
> I have 4G of swap for 2G of physical mem, so that is not the problem), 
> not to mention that one of these 2.4.x kernels caused Oracle 
> corruption.  I don't feel so comfortable testing new kernels with 
> several hundred GBs of customer data anymore :) .
>
> David Ford wrote:
>
>> I first suggest that you try kernel 2.4.9 or the latest of 2.4.8-acN.
>>
>> David
>>
>> Brian Strand wrote:
>>
>>> I have a quad xeon 2GB system running Oracle which I am reverting to 
>>> 2.2.x because of 2.4.x's less than desirable VM performance (causing 
>>> a 2x Oracle slowdown, reported about a month ago on linux-kernel).  
>>> I foolishly put a 3ware card in at the same time as I "upgraded" the 
>>> box to 2.4.4, so now I am in the undesirable position of needing to 
>>> go back to 2.2.19, but that kernel cannot find the card.  I get the 
>>> following message during boot:
>>>
>>> 3w-xxxx: tw_find_cards(): No cards found
>>> /lib/moduless/2.2.19-2GB-SMP/scsi/3w-xxxx.o: init_module: Device or 
>>> resource busy
>>>
>>> I have tried compiling the 3ware driver version 
>>> 1.02.00.{004,006,007} all with the same result.  Has anyone managed 
>>> to use a Suse 2.2.19 kernel with 3ware cards with any success?  The 
>>> 1.02.00.004 driver is from the stock 2.2.19 kernel, the .006 driver 
>>> is from 3ware's website, and the .007 driver is from 2.2.20pre9.
>>
>>

Re: 3ware: no cards found in 2.2.19, cards found in 2.4.x

[Brian Strand]

Alan Cox wrote:

 >Im using one with 2.2.18 fine. Is your bios set for pnp os ?
 >
 >
I modified the setting from "No PNP OS" to "PNP OS", with identical
results (card not found).  Could there be a conflict with another card
only under 2.2.19?  Here is an lspci -vvv (from the 2.4.4-14 kernel):

00:07.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc 3ware ATA-RAID (rev 12)
     Subsystem: 3ware Inc 3ware ATA-RAID
     Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping+ SERR+ FastB2B-
     Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
     Latency: 128 (2250ns min)
     Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
     Region 0: I/O ports at 2420 [size=16]
     Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]

00:08.0 SCSI storage controller: Symbios Logic Inc. (formerly NCR)
53c810 (rev 23)
     Subsystem: Symbios Logic Inc. (formerly NCR) 8100S
     Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
     Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
     Latency: 128 (2000ns min, 16000ns max), cache line size 08
     Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 58
     Region 0: I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
     Region 1: Memory at d0001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
     Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1
         Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
         Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

00:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5480 (rev 23)
(prog-if 00 [VGA])
     Subsystem: Unknown device 3e3e:003e
     Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
     Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
     Latency: 64 (500ns min, 2500ns max)
     Region 0: Memory at d2000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
     Region 1: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
     Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=32K]

00:0b.0 PIC: Intel Corporation 683053 Programmable Interrupt Device
(prog-if 03)
     Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
     Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
     Latency: 0 (2000ns min, 2000ns max)

00:0c.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
     Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle+ MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
     Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
     Latency: 0

00:0c.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
(prog-if 80 [Master])
     Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
     Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
     Latency: 64
     Region 4: I/O ports at 2430 [size=16]

00:0c.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
(prog-if 00 [UHCI])
     Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
     Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
     Latency: 64
     Interrupt: pin D routed to IRQ 54
     Region 4: I/O ports at 2400 [size=32]

00:0c.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
     Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
     Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
     Interrupt: pin ? routed to IRQ 9

00:10.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 450NX - 82451NX Memory & I/O
Controller (rev 03)
     Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
     Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-

00:12.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 450NX - 82454NX/84460GX PCI
Expander Bridge (rev 02)
     Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
     Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
     Latency: 128, cache line size 08

00:13.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 450NX - 82454NX/84460GX PCI
Expander Bridge (rev 02)
     Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
     Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
     Latency: 128, cache line size 08

01:01.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U2/W
     Subsystem: Adaptec: Unknown device a180
     Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
     Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
     Latency: 128 (9750ns min, 6250ns max), cache line size 08
     Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
     BIST result: 00
     Region 0: I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
     Region 1: Memory at d4004000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
     Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
     Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
         Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
         Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

01:02.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21154 (rev 02)
(prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
     Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
     Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
     Latency: 128, cache line size 08
     Bus: primary=01, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=68
     I/O behind bridge: 00004000-00004fff
     Memory behind bridge: d4100000-d43fffff
     Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000e0000000-00000000eff00000
     BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
     Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
         Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=220mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
         Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
         Bridge: PM- B3+

01:03.0 SCSI storage controller: Symbios Logic Inc. (formerly NCR)
53c896 (rev 01)
     Subsystem: Symbios Logic Inc. (formerly NCR): Unknown device 1000
     Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
     Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
     Latency: 128 (4250ns min, 16000ns max), cache line size 08
     Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 57
     Region 0: I/O ports at 3400 [size=256]
     Region 1: Memory at d4005000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
     Region 3: Memory at d4000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
     Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1
         Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
         Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

01:03.1 SCSI storage controller: Symbios Logic Inc. (formerly NCR)
53c896 (rev 01)
     Subsystem: Symbios Logic Inc. (formerly NCR): Unknown device 1000
     Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
     Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
     Latency: 128 (4250ns min, 16000ns max), cache line size 08
     Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 56
     Region 0: I/O ports at 3800 [size=256]
     Region 1: Memory at d4005400 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
     Region 3: Memory at d4002000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
     Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1
         Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
         Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

01:05.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone]
(rev 64)
     Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C905B Fast Etherlink XL 10/100
     Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
     Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
     Latency: 128 (2500ns min, 2500ns max), cache line size 08
     Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22
     Region 0: I/O ports at 3c00 [size=128]
     Region 1: Memory at d4005800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
     Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
     Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
         Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
         Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

02:03.0 Memory controller: Distributed Processing Technology Domino RAID
Engine (rev 02)
     Subsystem: Distributed Processing Technology Domino RAID Engine
     Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr+
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B+
     Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
     Latency: 128 (1000ns min, 2000ns max), cache line size 08
     Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 50
     BIST result: 00
     Region 0: Memory at d4100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
     Region 1: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]

02:04.0 I2O: Distributed Processing Technology SmartRAID V Controller
(rev 03) (prog-if 01)
     Subsystem: Distributed Processing Technology: Unknown device 50c6
     Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
     Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
     Latency: 128 (250ns min, 250ns max), cache line size 08
     Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
     BIST result: 00
     Region 0: Memory at d4200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
     Region 1: I/O ports at 4000 [size=256]
     Expansion ROM at 00090000 [disabled] [size=32K]