RE: Kernel 2.6.x hangs with Symbios Logic 53c1010 Ultra3 SCSI Ada pter

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Hi Guys,

I've been seeing problems with various tape drives and PPR. And a SCSI 3 SE
disk is interesting as well! SE and PPR don't get on too well;) The problems
we are seeing are generally indicated by a "phase change 6-7" error. And I
know there are others who have had problems from various messages on this
list

This wouldn't be too much of a problem but rather than then reverting to
using legacy sync and wide it just keeps trying PPR - for ever as far as I
can make out. And the drives struggle on using async;(

The following may help as a temporary fix for those who are desperate. We
are using this while we get on with higher priority items and we find time
to look at it more closely.

--- 2.6.9a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c	2004-10-11 03:58:24.000000000 +0100
+++ 2.6.9b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c	2004-11-04 12:20:09.000000000 +0000
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@
 	sdev->lockable = sdev->removable;
 	sdev->soft_reset = (inq_result[7] & 1) && ((inq_result[3] & 7) ==
2);
 
-	if (sdev->scsi_level >= SCSI_3 || (sdev->inquiry_len > 56 &&
+	if (/*sdev->scsi_level >= SCSI_3 ||*/ (sdev->inquiry_len > 56 &&
 		inq_result[56] & 0x04))
 		sdev->ppr = 1;
 	if (inq_result[7] & 0x60)

Using this all the drives I've tried that normally use PPR still use PPR.
The drives that do not support PPR no longer cause problems - PPR is no
longer sent to these problem drives.

Matthew - I have attached some bits of SCSI analyser traces which I hope may
be useful. An IBM SCSI 3 SE disk and a couple of LTO tape drives - IBM and
HP. The HP causes severe problems as modprobe hangs without the fix. I have
also seen drives that do unexpected disconnects if they get sent PPR.

Sorry no logs from linux/sym53c8xx - I may be can find some if you want to
see whats happening there.

I have been toying with the idea of disabling PPR capability if PPR is
rejected - forcing sdev->ppr=0 in the driver when it determines PPR has been
rejected - but I'm not sure that's right. There are drives which reject
negotiation - legacy sync and wide at least - while they are initialising
but will then accept it later on.

Question - where does the full source for the sym53c8xx_2 driver live these
days now that Gerard no long maintains it?


Regards
Richard


Richard Waltham
Bridgeworks Ltd
135 Somerford Road,
Christchurch
Dorset, BH23 3PY
England.

Tel 0870 121 0708
Fax 0870 121 0709

Email: richardw@4bridgeworks.com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Wilcox [mailto:matthew@wil.cx]
> Sent: 05 November 2004 13:44
> To: Thomas Babut
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Linux SCSI; matthew@wil.cx;
> groudier@free.fr
> Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.x hangs with Symbios Logic 53c1010 Ultra3 SCSI
> Adapter
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 01:52:32PM +0100, Thomas Babut wrote:
> > Here I am again with some news. :)
> 
> Um, again?  This is the first I've heard from you.  BTW, 
> Gerard seems to
> be unreachable, which is why I took over the driver.
> 
> > I tried last night Kernel 2.6.0 and 2.6.1 (both vanilla) 
> and the system 
> > bootet up with the controller! Then I tried this:
> > 
> > 1) unpack vanilla Kernel 2.6.9
> > 2) copy drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_comm.h, 
> drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_defs.h and 
> > the whole directory drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/* from Kernel 
> 2.6.1 into 
> > the Kernel 2.6.9 source
> > 
> > It booted, too. But on all this three 2.6 Kernels the 
> SCSI-Harddisk has 
> > got very poor performance. With Kernel 2.4.26 and 2.4.27 it 
> makes almost 
> > 30 MB/s. With all three 2.6 Kernels it makes about 5 MB/s.
> 
> Sounds like your drive isn't negotiating the correct transfer rate.
> If it's able to do 30MB/s, I guess it should be negotiating at least
> wide, 20MHz -- 5MB/s sounds like asynchronous.
> 
> > (see 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109953598029428&w=2 
> > for detailed hardware specs and other informations)
> 
> Hrm.  Domain validation is failing.  I bet what's going on is that the
> controller is U160-capable, so we're sending a PPR message to 
> the drive
> which is going haywire.  I do hope we don't have to start blacklisting
> drives as being PPR-incapable.
> 
> Can you turn on negotiation debugging and send me the result?  If you
> have 2.1.18m, that's sym53c8xx.debug=0x200 ... earlier than that, it's
> sym53c8xx=debug:0x200
> 
> Now ... you say:
> 
> > sym0: SCSI BUS reset detected.
> > sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
> > sym0: SCSI BUS operation completed.
> > 
> > At this point only a hard-reset helps.
> 
> Do you mean the machine freezes at this point, or you can't 
> boot because
> this drive has your root partition on it and it can't be 
> found?  If the
> former, this is another bug that needs to be fixed.
> 
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Session name: None
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                              01 06 04
                        Parallel Protocol Pw:?,off:?,Width:?,
                        flags:?
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                              01 06 04
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                       (128 Bytes)
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