On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Adoram Rogel wrote:
> What version of the adaptec driver ?
The one bundled with kernel 2.2.13 + ac3. I've since upgraded to 2.2.14
but the problem remains.
The aic7xxx.c source indicates:
#define AIC7XXX_C_VERSION "5.1.21"
Best Regards,
Tom.
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> ./adoram
>
> Tom Sedge wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > We've installed a new Onstream ADR50 drive (SCSI Ultra 3 LVD bus). It is
> > sitting in a machine with the following spec:
> >
> > ASUS P2DS motherboard
> > 2 x Dual PII 400Mhz
> > 384RAM
> > Onboard Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI Ultra 3 LVD bus
> > 1 x Seagate Cheeta 9.1Gb SCSI drive
> > 3 x Seagate Cheeta 18.2Gb SCSI drives
> > D-link DFE530TX 10/100 Ethernet PCI
> > RedHat Linux 6.1 patched to kernel 2.2.13 + ac3 (SMP).
> > Software raid 5 across the 3 18.2Gb drives (not the boot drive)
> >
> > The drive is properly recognised and reported on startup, and assigned to
> > /dev/st0.
> >
> > All is well until we try reading or writing to a tape. The drive starts
> > to show write/read behaviour and then nothing happens for a minute or so
> > until a large number of SCSI write errors are reported by the kernel. At
> > this point the SCSI bus seems to go bananas an the hard drive light goes
> > fully on. The machine then stops responding and a reset is needed (to
> > reset the SCSI bus). After coming back up the machine is fine, and no
> > problems occur unless we try accessing the drive. Nothing is logged in
> > the system logs and there are no 'oopses'.
> >
> > We've checked for SCSI Id conflicts and termination of the bus. Both seem
> > to be ok. Could this be an SMP problem? The addition of the ADR drive is
> > the only change to this machine recently.
> >
> > If anyone can help, I'd be most grateful.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Tom.
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