Hello, I am having nasty problems with an Adaptec 29160 and Promise Ultratrak100 TX8 external RAID. (kernel 2.6.11)
Initially, I can access the RAID normally. I create a (small, for testing) partition on it, and an ext3 filesystem. But when I start writing, in no-time the RAID and the SCSI adapter get into a broken state, and rebooting both RAID and Linux (simply rmmod/modprobe is not enough) is the only way out. I trigger this with a small test like creating 10000 files, or extracting a kernel tar.gz. In my /var/log/messages I find: Mar 8 10:58:22 iua-file-2 kernel: (scsi3:A:0:0): data overrun detected in Data-out phase. Tag == 0x2. Mar 8 10:58:22 iua-file-2 kernel: (scsi3:A:0:0): Have seen Data Phase. Length = 524288. NumSGs = 33. Mar 8 10:58:52 iua-file-2 kernel: scsi3:0:0:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message Mar 8 10:58:52 iua-file-2 kernel: CDB: 0x2a 0x0 0x0 0x2 0x8c 0x37 0x0 0x4 0x0 0x0 Mar 8 10:58:52 iua-file-2 kernel: scsi3: At time of recovery, card was not paused Mar 8 10:58:52 iua-file-2 kernel: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dump Card State Begins <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Mar 8 10:58:52 iua-file-2 kernel: scsi3: Dumping Card State in Data-out phase, at SEQADDR 0x17b Mar 8 10:58:52 iua-file-2 kernel: Card was paused I have tried changing settings in the adaptec controller BIOS, I tried lowering the global_tag_depth, all to no avail. And having the reboot everytime it goes wrong makes trying things rather slow :-( I googled for the messages, and found many people mentioning them, but no solution. I'd very much appreciate your help. Please Cc: me when replying, because I am not subscribed to the lkml. Kind regards, Maarten - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
