From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756955AbZAGEV3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:21:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754159AbZAGEVS (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:21:18 -0500 Received: from accolon.hansenpartnership.com ([76.243.235.52]:36347 "EHLO accolon.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750923AbZAGEVS (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:21:18 -0500 Subject: Re: need fusion driver guide From: James Bottomley To: linux linux Cc: Sam Ravnborg , LKML , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <20090106214538.GA18370@uranus.ravnborg.org> <1231278625.10475.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:21:14 -0600 Message-Id: <1231302074.19352.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 (2.22.3.1-1.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org You still need to turn off html email attachments, otherwise your messages won't be accepted by the mailing lists. It will be an option like recipient wants text/plain only or something. On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 09:32 +0530, linux linux wrote: > Hi, > > Sam many thanks for ur help. > > Hi James, > > I am getting some error on for fusion device driver. > The error message look like this > > > 2F240F4C226078: 19/12/2008 EST 04:42:45, mptscsih: ioc1: >> > Attempting task abort! (sc=e40df080) > 2F240F6E8C2E00: 19/12/2008 EST 04:42:45, mptbase: ioc1: > IOCStatus(0x0048): SCSI Task Terminated > 2F240F6E905A98: 19/12/2008 EST 04:42:45, mptscsih: ioc1: >> > Attempting task abort! (sc=f7e23680) > > 2F24117BDA2438: 19/12/2008 EST 04:42:50, mptscsih: ioc1: >> > Attempting bus reset! (sc=e40df080) > > After then the server has been rebooted. > > I can see the code is written inside /drivers/message/fussion/ > mptscsih.c > The responsible function is > mptscsih_host_reset() > i am very new in SCSI fusion device driver. read some help guide from > google but still i do not understand when the mptscsih_host_reset() is > called by kernel. I normal situation i am not able to see this message > in kernel log. > Can any one help me to understand when these type of kernel message > are comming, is it foe SCSI hardware problem ? > when mptscsih_host_reset() will be executed? It looks like a standard error handling escalation sequence. Why is very hard to tell without the entire kernel log. Why there wasn't a recovery is also not clear. > Only one time i show this message in my kernel log, is there any way > to reproduce this message manually? > > where i get much info regarding this issue and SCSI fusion kernel > driver except kernel code itself? > > I am writting this after reading help doc from > http://www.lsi.com/insight_center/tech_trends/advanced_architectures/fusionmpt/index.html > > But still i am very few knowledge to solve it. > > waiting for your help. There's not much else I can do. If you post the entire kernel log, the fusion people hang out on this list and might see something that indicates what the problem is. James