AIC-7XXX driver problems with 2.4.9 and L440GX+

AIC-7XXX driver problems with 2.4.9 and L440GX+

[Ray Bryant]

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The AIC-7XXX version 6.2.1 driver hangs at startup under 2.4.x  (we've
tried
2.4.2-2 (RH 7.1), 2.4.5, and 2.4.9).
The complete boot output is attached; the interesting parts are 
as follows:

scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.1
        <Adaptec aic7896/97 Ultra2 SCSI adapter>
        aic7896/97: Ultra2 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/255 SCBs
scsi1 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.1
        <Adaptec aic7896/97 Ultra2 SCSI adapter>
        aic7896/97: Ultra2 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/255 SCBs
scsi0:0:0:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message
scsi0:0:0:0: Command already completed
aic7xxx_abort returns 8194
scsi0:0:0:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message
scsi0:0:0:0: Device is active, asserting ATN
Recovery code sleeping
Recovery code awake
Timer Expired
aic7xxx_abort returns 8195
scsi0:0:0:0: Attempting to queue a TARGET RESET message
aic7xxx_dev_reset returns 8195
Recovery SCB completes
scsi0:0:0:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message
ahc_intr: HOST_MSG_LOOP bad phase 0x0
scsi0:0:0:0: Cmd aborted from QINFIFO
aic7xxx_abort returns 8194
scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after bus
reset: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
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These same machines worked fine with 2.2.18 from www.kernel.org and
2.2.19 from RedHat.  Any suggestions?

Machine is an Intel L440GX+ 700 MHZ PIII 2GB RAM
Adapter is Adaptec AIX-7896 Bios level is v2.20.S1B1
Disks are QUANTUM ATLS TY09TL 
Machine bios is Phoenix 4.0 Release 6.0

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Linux version 2.4.9 (raybry@raybry_lnx) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-81)) #3 Fri Sep 21 14:55:21 CDT 2001
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000e8000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007f7f0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000007f7f0000 - 000000007f7ffc00 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 000000007f7ffc00 - 000000007f800000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Warning only 896MB will be used.
Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.
On node 0 totalpages: 229376
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 225280 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=2.4.9 ro root=806 console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 696.982 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1389.36 BogoMIPS
Memory: 899436k/917504k available (1425k kernel code, 17680k reserved, 555k data, 212k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU serial number disabled.
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 03
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdab0, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
Unknown bridge resource 1: assuming transparent
Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent
Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
Unknown bridge resource 1: assuming transparent
Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent
PCI: Discovered primary peer bus ff [IRQ]
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:12.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Starting kswapd v1.8
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
block: 128 slots per queue, batch=16
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 91
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x2860-0x2867, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x2868-0x286f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6702B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg> and others
PCI: Assigned IRQ 10 for device 00:0e.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:12.2
eth0: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100], 00:D0:B7:A9:AF:18, IRQ 10.
  Board assembly 000000-000, Physical connectors present: RJ45
  Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
  General self-test: passed.
  Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
  Internal registers self-test: passed.
  ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 816M
agpgart: Detected Intel 440GX chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf4000000
[drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20010216 on minor 0
[drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel 440GX @ 0xf4000000 64MB
[drm] Initialized radeon 1.1.1 20010405 on minor 1
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
PCI: Assigned IRQ 11 for device 00:0c.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:0c.1
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0c.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:0c.0
scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.1
        <Adaptec aic7896/97 Ultra2 SCSI adapter>
        aic7896/97: Ultra2 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/255 SCBs
scsi1 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.1
        <Adaptec aic7896/97 Ultra2 SCSI adapter>
        aic7896/97: Ultra2 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/255 SCBs
scsi0:0:0:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message
scsi0:0:0:0: Command already completed
aic7xxx_abort returns 8194
scsi0:0:0:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message
scsi0:0:0:0: Device is active, asserting ATN
Recovery code sleeping
Recovery code awake
Timer Expired
aic7xxx_abort returns 8195
scsi0:0:0:0: Attempting to queue a TARGET RESET message
aic7xxx_dev_reset returns 8195
Recovery SCB completes
scsi0:0:0:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message
ahc_intr: HOST_MSG_LOOP bad phase 0x0
scsi0:0:0:0: Cmd aborted from QINFIFO
aic7xxx_abort returns 8194
scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after bus reset: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
scsi0:0:1:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message
scsi0:0:1:0: Command already completed
aic7xxx_abort returns 8194
scsi0:0:1:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message
scsi0:0:1:0: Device is active, asserting ATN
Recovery code sleeping
Recovery code awake
aic7xxx_abort returns 8194
scsi0:0:1:0: Attempting to queue a TARGET RESET message
aic7xxx_dev_reset returns 8195
Recovery SCB completes
scsi0:0:1:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message
ahc_intr: HOST_MSG_LOOP bad phase 0x0
scsi0:0:1:0: Cmd aborted from QINFIFO
aic7xxx_abort returns 8194
scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after bus reset: host 0 channel 0 id 1 lun 0
scsi0:0:2:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message
scsi0:0:2:0: Command already completed
aic7xxx_abort returns 8194
scsi0:0:2:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message
scsi0:0:2:0: Device is active, asserting ATN
Recovery code sleeping
Recovery code awake
aic7xxx_abort returns 8194
scsi0:0:2:0: Attempting to queue a TARGET RESET message
aic7xxx_dev_reset returns 8195
Recovery SCB completes
scsi0:0:2:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message
ahc_intr: HOST_MSG_LOOP bad phase 0x0
scsi0:0:2:0: Cmd aborted from QINFIFO
aic7xxx_abort returns 8194
scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after bus reset: host 0 channel 0 id 2 lun 0
scsi0:0:3:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message
scsi0:0:3:0: Command already completed
aic7xxx_abort returns 8194
scsi0:0:3:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message
scsi0:0:3:0: Command already completed
aic7xxx_abort returns 8194
scsi0:0:3:0: Attempting to queue a TARGET RESET message
scsi0:0:3:0: Is not an active device
aic7xxx_dev_reset returns 8194
scsi0:0:3:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message
scsi0:0:3:0: Command already completed
aic7xxx_abort returns 8194

Re: AIC-7XXX driver problems with 2.4.9 and L440GX+

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

>scsi0:0:0:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message
>scsi0:0:0:0: Command already completed
>aic7xxx_abort returns 8194
>scsi0:0:0:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message
>scsi0:0:0:0: Device is active, asserting ATN
>Recovery code sleeping
>Recovery code awake
>Timer Expired
>aic7xxx_abort returns 8195
>scsi0:0:0:0: Attempting to queue a TARGET RESET message
>aic7xxx_dev_reset returns 8195
>Recovery SCB completes
>scsi0:0:0:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message
>ahc_intr: HOST_MSG_LOOP bad phase 0x0
>scsi0:0:0:0: Cmd aborted from QINFIFO
>aic7xxx_abort returns 8194
>scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after bus
>reset: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
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That's interesting as it appears to be the exact same problem I'm having
on my G4 PowerMac with a 2960 card and recent kernels. The 6.2.3 driver
didn't help (Justin, see the log I sent you).

Regards,
Ben.

Re: AIC-7XXX driver problems with 2.4.9 and L440GX+

[arjan]

In article <3BABA9F4.3677E423@timesn.com> you wrote:
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> The AIC-7XXX version 6.2.1 driver hangs at startup under 2.4.x  (we've
> tried
> 2.4.2-2 (RH 7.1), 2.4.5, and 2.4.9).
> The complete boot output is attached; the interesting parts are 
> as follows:

You can try the updated BOOT disk Red Hat has made available for this, we
managed to workaround the bios bug for at least several motherboards.

But the 440GX chipset isn't really supported by linux; it contains some
Intel chips that nobody has the specification for and all 440GX bioses I've
seen have a buggy IRQ table as well, so that can't be used either. This
results in kernels not being able to get proper IRQ routing figured out. 2.2
gets it mostly right because it trusts a different bios table... which
breaks in other situations (don't put a cardbus controller in the machine,
2.2 will break). 

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven.

Re: AIC-7XXX driver problems with 2.4.9 and L440GX+

[Justin T. Gibbs]

>The AIC-7XXX version 6.2.1 driver hangs at startup under 2.4.x  (we've
>tried 2.4.2-2 (RH 7.1), 2.4.5, and 2.4.9).
>The complete boot output is attached; the interesting parts are 
>as follows:

This again looks like an interrupt problem (driver not seeing interrupts).
To know for sure, I'd need to see the messages from an "aic7xxx=verbose"
boot.

--
Justin

Re: AIC-7XXX driver problems with 2.4.9 and L440GX+

[Ray Bryant]

I found a note about a bugzilla comment written by Doug Ledford at
RedHat at
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-18/0508.html
that suggests a work around is to build the kernel with IO-APIC support.
This appears to fix the current problem.  So unless something else comes
up,
I am "fixed" at the moment.  

"Justin T. Gibbs" wrote:
> 
> >The AIC-7XXX version 6.2.1 driver hangs at startup under 2.4.x  (we've
> >tried 2.4.2-2 (RH 7.1), 2.4.5, and 2.4.9).
> >The complete boot output is attached; the interesting parts are
> >as follows:
> 
> This again looks like an interrupt problem (driver not seeing interrupts).
> To know for sure, I'd need to see the messages from an "aic7xxx=verbose"
> boot.
> 
> --
> Justin

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Re: AIC-7XXX driver problems with 2.4.9 and L440GX+

[Derek Gladding]

On Friday 21 September 2001 01:58 pm, Ray Bryant wrote:
> The AIC-7XXX version 6.2.1 driver hangs at startup under 2.4.x  (we've
> tried
> 2.4.2-2 (RH 7.1), 2.4.5, and 2.4.9).

[snip]

> These same machines worked fine with 2.2.18 from www.kernel.org and
> 2.2.19 from RedHat.  Any suggestions?
>
> Machine is an Intel L440GX+ 700 MHZ PIII 2GB RAM
> Adapter is Adaptec AIX-7896 Bios level is v2.20.S1B1
> Disks are QUANTUM ATLS TY09TL
> Machine bios is Phoenix 4.0 Release 6.0


I had something similar on my dev box (2.4.[789] / Dual PIII-750 / Via / 1.5G 
/ Adaptec 2940 / three striped IBM DCHS-09Y 9.1G) and found that compiling 
the aic7xxx driver with TCQ disabled got round the problem. A far from 
perfect solution, I know, but it may get you up and running and maybe
provide some more clues as to what is happening.

- Derek