Package: linux-source-2.6.24 Version: 2.6.24-6~etchnhalf.6 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
I've moved an Adaptec 1542CF with a SCSI chain of: scanner, tape drive and CD writer into a P3. This hardware worked just fine in a pentium 133 years ago under 2.4 kernels. On this newer machine any access to the controller or any scsi device causes a kernel panic. Both on kernel 2.6.18 and 2.6.24 (the latest kernel available for Etch via aptitude). Both kernels were locally compiled, via make-kpkg. What works: the BIOS recognizes the controller and the connected devices. The Adaptec SCSI utility can run DMA tests with no problem. Manually loading the aha1542 driver with this command: modprobe -v aha1542 aha1542=0x134,5,10 causes no errors and identifies the connected devices. Since this is an old ISA device, it had to be manually configured for I/O address of 0x134, dma 5 and irq 10. In the bios, dma 5 and irq 10 were allocated to "legacy devices". Strangely, even with the options in the /etc/modules.conf file and an explicit mention of aha1542 in /etc/modules, the driver is not loaded on boot. Furthermore, any access to the controller causes an immediate panic and crash. For instance, running lshw after the driver is loaded causes this: (kernel 2.6.18) Bad segment list supplied to aha1542.c (1,0) 0: c0090000 255 cptr c0366e00: 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 <0> Kernel panic - not syncing: Foooooooood fight! or (kernel 2.6.24) Bad segment list supplied to aha1542.c (1,0) 0: c0c20000 255 cptr c0c1be00: 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 <0> Kernel panic - not syncing: Foooooooood fight! Any hints? Looks like a genuine bug to me. What could be causing a bad segment list to be supplied to the scsi driver? If I can supply more information, just ask and I'll perform the tests required. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.241 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.24 depends on: ii binutils 2.17-3 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii bzip2 1.0.3-6 high-quality block-sorting file co Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.24 recommends: ii gcc 4:4.1.1-15 The GNU C compiler ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.3.6.ds1-13etch7 GNU C Library: Development Librari ii make 3.81-2 The GNU version of the "make" util -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
