Re[2]: 2.4.11aa1 and AIC7XXX

[Oleg A. Yurlov]

        Hi, Cliff and all,

Thursday, October 11, 2001, 6:31:05 PM, you wrote:

CA> On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 05:39:54PM +0400, Oleg A. Yurlov wrote:

>> Oct 10 20:35:31 samson kernel: (scsi0:A:2:0): Locking max tag count at 128
>> Oct 10 21:06:31 samson kernel: (scsi1:A:0:0): Locking max tag count at 64                                                           
>> Oct 11 05:33:09 samson kernel: (scsi0:A:3:0): Locking max tag count at 128       
>> 
>>         Hardware   -  SMP 2 CPU, 1GB RAM, M/B Intel L440GX, 5 SCSI HDD, Software
>> RAID5 (3 disks) and RAID1.
>> 
>>         I found in dmesg:
>> 
>>  *** Possibly defective BIOS detected (irqtable)
>>  *** Many BIOSes matching this signature have incorrect IRQ routing tables.
>>  *** If you see IRQ problems, in paticular SCSI resets and hangs at boot
>>  *** contact your vendor and ask about updates.
>>  *** Building an SMP kernel may evade the bug some of the time.
>> Starting kswapd
>> 
>>         It's  normal or not ? What I can do to fix problem with locking max tag
>> count ?

CA> Looks normal, it's that the new aic7xxx driver utilizes a maximum tag queue depth of 255 tags. Your devices are supporting only a maximum tag count of 128, 64 and 128 so it's perfectly normal.
CA> Also these 'error' messages should only appear once and no more (until a reboot)

        Thanks a lot !

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Oleg A. Yurlov aka Kris Werewolf, SysAdmin      OAY100-RIPN
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