From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:47:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:46:33 -0400 Received: from mail.scsiguy.com ([63.229.232.106]:26378 "EHLO aslan.scsiguy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:45:43 -0400 Message-Id: <200108202145.f7KLjsY43284@aslan.scsiguy.com> To: Cliff Albert cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: aic7xxx errors with 2.4.8-ac7 on 440gx mobo In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Aug 2001 23:09:10 +0200." <20010820230909.A28422@oisec.net> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 15:45:54 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> And here they are, the dmesg is my bootup dmesg with the devices drivers >> and stuff, and the second dmesg is the actual errors (verbose turned on) > >Some more research pointed out that the errors/lock of the scsi bus always >appears about 20 seconds after kernel load when i cold boot the machine. >With a warm boot the machine gives these errors/lock at random times. IIRC, the problem has to do with the state of the write cache in the drive. The cache will be in a different state after power-on as compared to after some amount of activity. -- Justin