Henry Yen wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 03:54:13AM -0700, Knut E. Meidal wrote:
>
>>I am reinstalling a machine, Dell PowerEdge600c which is to become a new
>>Bacula server.
>>I am having errors with the aic7xxx driver, both the new and old, using
>>a host of different Linux distros, and kernels.
>>(Most recent error: "(scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Referenced SCB 0 not valid during
>>SELTO"
>>I have tried several different cards, many different cables and many
>>different tape drives, libraries and terminators. All unsuccessful.
>>Does anyone have suggestions for a solid combination of Linux distros,
>>kernel rev etc that I can try?
>>
>>I have so far tried:
>>Gentoo with homebaked kernels in the 2.6.8 to 11 range
>>Debian 3.01 Sarge, both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels aic7xxx and aic7xxx_old both
>>static and modules
>>Ubuntu Linux(essentially Debian) with 2.6 kernels, stock and homebuilt
>>SuSE 9.3 with no customization
>>
>>The irritating part is that this setup worked fine with Windows 2000
>>Server and tape drives...
>>
>>I am seeing lots of discussions about the aic driver in Linux, can
>>anyone confirm it is possible to get scsi tapes working on adaptec
>>29160?
>
>
> yeah, the aic7xxx situation looks pretty bad...
>
> i've got a redhat7.3 (with most of the redhat updates) on a pentium4/1.8
> with a 29160LP (a 29160B chip with the vhd connector), and a 2940u2w,
> and a buslogic 946c (ancient, 50HD connector) all running
> tape drives, simultaneously. problems occur only if the scsi bus
> hangs up (which typically happen only if/when the drive hangs up
> and the error recovery doesn't happen within the bus timeout window).
> the reset procedure in that case is to rmmod then modprobe the aic7xxx
> module. other than that, no other problems that i encountered.
>
> i've got a pranged 29160 non-LP ("low profile" -- no internal connector)
> card that needs some soldering work, and if my lab techs ever get
> around to fixing it, i'll be testing that, too.
>
> knoppix 3.9 also runs on this kit.
I'm glad this discussion came up BEFORE I did my planned replacement of
babylon5's current BT958C and AHA2940 with a pair of AHA29160s.
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