From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263876AbTLXVFk (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:05:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263879AbTLXVFk (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:05:40 -0500 Received: from wsip-68-99-153-203.ri.ri.cox.net ([68.99.153.203]:42690 "EHLO blue-labs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263876AbTLXVF0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:05:26 -0500 Message-ID: <3FE9FF6F.50606@blue-labs.org> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:04:47 -0500 From: David Ford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20031222 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lnz@dandelion.com Subject: Re: 2.6.0 and VMWare Buslogic Error? References: <200312241500.27156.eric@cisu.net> In-Reply-To: <200312241500.27156.eric@cisu.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The BusLogic driver has had this problem for a long long time. It works as long as nothing breaks... how's that for an answer ;) David Eric wrote: >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 >------------------------- >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >