Hi Folks-
I'm having a problem with Seagate ST39173WC drives mounted in the Hot Swap
Bay (HSB) of an Intel Astor Chasis. The mainboard is a Intel N440BX, with
an on-board Symbios SYM53C876 SCSI controller. I'm using ncr53c8xx
ver. 3.1f driver in a Linux 2.2.1 kernel (Debian distro).
I upgraded the firmware on the HSB controller to ver. 1.65, on the advice
of Gerard Roudier, who forwarded a message posted to linux-scsi about a
similar problem from Pekka Pietikainen.
I am now able to boot the SCSI drive if I pass 'ncr53c8xx=safe:y' at the
LILO prompt. I then loaded the system onto an IDE drive, so I could do
some testing by loading the SCSI driver as a module. I append the results
of those tests below.
I would appreciate any comments or advice. If there are arguements I
could be passing to the ncr53c8xx to avoid the errors from the drive,
please let me know.
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# insmod ncr53c8xx (with no devices on the SCSI bus)
ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 13, function 0
ncr53c8xx: 53c876 detected
ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 13, function 1
ncr53c8xx: 53c876 detected
ncr53c876-0: rev=0x37, base=0xfa103000, io_port=0x1400, irq=11
ncr53c876-0: ID 7, Fast-20, Parity Checking
ncr53c876-0: on-chip RAM at 0xfa100000
ncr53c876-0: restart (scsi reset).
ncr53c876-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS.
ncr53c876-1: rev=0x37, base=0xfa103400, io_port=0x1800, irq=10
ncr53c876-1: ID 7, Fast-20, Parity Checking
ncr53c876-1: on-chip RAM at 0xfa101000
ncr53c876-1: restart (scsi reset).
ncr53c876-1: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS.
scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - revision 3.1f
scsi1 : ncr53c8xx - revision 3.1f
scsi : 2 hosts.
# rmmod ncr53c8xx
ncr53c876-0: releasing host resources
ncr53c876-0: resetting chip
ncr53c876-0: host resources successfully released
ncr53c876-1: releasing host resources
ncr53c876-1: resetting chip
ncr53c876-1: host resources successfully released
scsi : 0 hosts.
# insmod ncr53c8xx (with HSB on the scsi0 bus)
ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 13, function 0
ncr53c8xx: 53c876 detected
ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 13, function 1
ncr53c8xx: 53c876 detected
ncr53c876-0: rev=0x37, base=0xfa103000, io_port=0x1400, irq=11
ncr53c876-0: ID 7, Fast-20, Parity Checking
ncr53c876-0: on-chip RAM at 0xfa100000
ncr53c876-0: restart (scsi reset).
ncr53c876-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS.
ncr53c876-1: rev=0x37, base=0xfa103400, io_port=0x1800, irq=10
ncr53c876-1: ID 7, Fast-20, Parity Checking
ncr53c876-1: on-chip RAM at 0xfa101000
ncr53c876-1: restart (scsi reset).
ncr53c876-1: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS.
scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - revision 3.1f
scsi1 : ncr53c8xx - revision 3.1f
scsi : 2 hosts.
Vendor: ESG-SHV Model: SCA HSBP M5 Rev: 1.65
Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi generic sga at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
# rmmond ncr53c8xx
ncr53c876-0: releasing host resources
ncr53c876-0: resetting chip
ncr53c876-0: host resources successfully released
ncr53c876-1: releasing host resources
ncr53c876-1: resetting chip
ncr53c876-1: host resources successfully released
scsi : 0 hosts.
# insmod ncr53c8xx (with HSB and 1 HDD on the scsi0 bus)
ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 13, function 0
ncr53c8xx: 53c876 detected
ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 13, function 1
ncr53c8xx: 53c876 detected
ncr53c876-0: rev=0x37, base=0xfa103000, io_port=0x1400, irq=11
ncr53c876-0: ID 7, Fast-20, Parity Checking
ncr53c876-0: on-chip RAM at 0xfa100000
ncr53c876-0: restart (scsi reset).
ncr53c876-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS.
ncr53c876-1: rev=0x37, base=0xfa103400, io_port=0x1800, irq=10
ncr53c876-1: ID 7, Fast-20, Parity Checking
ncr53c876-1: on-chip RAM at 0xfa101000
ncr53c876-1: restart (scsi reset).
ncr53c876-1: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS.
scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - revision 3.1f
scsi1 : ncr53c8xx - revision 3.1f
scsi : 2 hosts.
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST39173WC Rev: 6244
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: ESG-SHV Model: SCA HSBP M5 Rev: 1.65
Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi generic sgb at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
ncr53c876-0-<0,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 4
sda: Spinning up disk...<6>ncr53c876-0-<0,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns,
offset 15)
..................ready
ncr53c876-0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=3 DBC=19000000 SSTAT1=1
ncr53c876-0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=3 DBC=19000000 SSTAT1=9
scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of retries.
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
ncr53c8xx_reset: pid=134 reset_flags=1 serial_number=0 serial_number_at_timeout=0
scsi0: device driver called scsi_done() for a syncronous reset.
ncr53c876-0: restart (scsi reset).
ncr53c876-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS.
ncr53c876-0-<0,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 15)
ncr53c876-0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=3 DBC=19000000 SSTAT1=1
ncr53c876-0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=3 DBC=19000000 SSTAT1=1
ncr53c876-0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=3 DBC=19000000 SSTAT1=9
ncr53c876-0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=3 DBC=19000000 SSTAT1=9
scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of retries.
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
ncr53c8xx_reset: pid=135 reset_flags=1 serial_number=0 serial_number_at_timeout=0
scsi0: device driver called scsi_done() for a syncronous reset.
ncr53c876-0: restart (scsi reset).
ncr53c876-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS.
ncr53c876-0-<0,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 15)
ncr53c876-0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=3 DBC=19000000 SSTAT1=1
ncr53c876-0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=3 DBC=19000000 SSTAT1=1
ncr53c876-0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=3 DBC=19000000 SSTAT1=9
ncr53c876-0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=3 DBC=19000000 SSTAT1=1
scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of retries.
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
ncr53c8xx_reset: pid=136 reset_flags=1 serial_number=0 serial_number_at_timeout=0
scsi0: device driver called scsi_done() for a syncronous reset.
ncr53c876-0: restart (scsi reset).
ncr53c876-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS.
ncr53c876-0-<0,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 15)
ncr53c876-0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=3 DBC=19000000 SSTAT1=9
ncr53c876-0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=3 DBC=19000000 SSTAT1=1
sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 18
sda : extended sense code = b
sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
sda:ncr53c876-0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=3 DBC=19000200 SSTAT1=e
ncr53c876-0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=3 DBC=19000200 SSTAT1=6
scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of retries.
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
ncr53c8xx_reset: pid=137 reset_flags=1 serial_number=0 serial_number_at_timeout=0
scsi0: device driver called scsi_done() for a syncronous reset.
ncr53c876-0: restart (scsi reset).
ncr53c876-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS.
ncr53c876-0-<0,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 15)
ncr53c876-0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=3 DBC=19000200 SSTAT1=e
ncr53c876-0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=3 DBC=19000200 SSTAT1=e
SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 18000002
extra data not valid Current error sd08:00: sense key Aborted Command
Additional sense indicates Initiator detected error message received
scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
unable to read partition table
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Thanks much.
Tim
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