Re: AIC7xxx errors in 2.2.19 but not in 2.2.18

[Andreas Steinmetz]

On 15-Sep-2001 Doug Ledford wrote:
> Andreas Steinmetz wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 2.2.19 only has the 'old' driver. The 'raid/scsi new' problem is a notifier
>> chain sequence problem that seems to have been taken care of now.
>> What I do see here may be a coincidence of kernel upgrade and a faulty
>> drive.
>> Some snippets of 2.2.19 log messages of a faulty drive below.
>> 
>> May  2 03:33:07 pollux kernel: (scsi1:0:1:0) Parity error during Data-In
>> phase.
>> May  2 03:33:37 pollux kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid
>> 1188263, scsi1, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Read (10) 00 01 04 cd 97 00 00 80 00 
> 
> 
> 
> I've seen that error a few times now with the new code in 2.2.19.  I 
> don't have a fix for it at this time (and I probably won't since 
> development on that driver isn't a 'regular' thing at this point).  If 
> the old driver in 2.2.18 worked for you, then I would copy the aic7xxx* 
> files from 2.2.18 into 2.2.19 and rebuild your kernel.
> 
> 
Please note that the disk was proven faulty. (Other kernel, other OS on other
hardware, disk still failing, since then replaced and no more problems).

Andreas Steinmetz
D.O.M. Datenverarbeitung GmbH