A SCSI problem

[Mike Westkamper]

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[mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Alexander Dalloz
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 10:03 AM
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Subject: RE: A SCSI problem


Am Fr, den 23.01.2004 schrieb Mike Westkamper um 15:31:
> I seemingly am unable to make this work at boot time.
> I believe I followed Alexanders instructions correctly, however the system
> still does not find the adapter nor mount the drives at boot time.

You made a ramdisk initrd.img which contains the scsi module?

> Furthermore, I cannot mount the drives after I do a manual modprobe aix*.

No, "modprobe aic7xxx" is the correct syntax, nothing else. Maybe you
need to pass special options as I wrote in my first reply!

> fdisk list all 8 drives correctly after the modproble, however a number of
> attempts to mount them fail.

Please post syslog entries when the modprobe was executed but not drives
are recognized (/var/log/messages is the relevant file).

> The drives were configured as a softraid by RedHat Linux 7.2.
>
> I copied the raidtab from the 7.2 version and updated the fstab to the
> Fedora version and it still does not seem to work.

And the Adaptec controller was used on RH 7.2 too or was it different
hardware?

> Thanks in advance for any direction...
>
> Mike

Please do NOT top-post. Not good for following and answering in
discussion.

Alexander


Greetings:

After a few days away I am back trying to solve this problem.

I modified the modules.conf to:
===============
alias eth0 3c509
alias scsi_host_adapter aic7xxx
options aic7xxx 'aic7xxx=probe_eisa_vl.tag_info:{{}.{.10}}.seltime:1'
===============

Next I did a mkinitrd and logged the results:
===============
Looking for deps of module scsi_mod
Looking for deps of module sd_mod	scsi_mod
Looking for deps of module scsi_mod
Looking for deps of module unknown
Looking for deps of module aic7xxx	scsi_mod
Looking for deps of module scsi_mod
Looking for deps of module ide-disk
Looking for deps of module ext2
Using modules:  ./kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.o
./kernel/drivers/scsi/sd_mod.o ./kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.o
Using loopback device /dev/loop0
/sbin/nash -> /tmp/initrd.iF2107/bin/nash
/sbin/insmod.static -> /tmp/initrd.iF2107/bin/insmod
`/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2149.nptlcustom/./kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.o' ->
`/tmp/initrd.iF2107/lib/scsi_mod.o'
`/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2149.nptlcustom/./kernel/drivers/scsi/sd_mod.o' ->
`/tmp/initrd.iF2107/lib/sd_mod.o'
`/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2149.nptlcustom/./kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx
.o' -> `/tmp/initrd.iF2107/lib/aic7xxx.o'
Loading module scsi_mod
Loading module sd_mod
Loading module aic7xxx with options
'aic7xxx=probe_eisa_vl.tag_info:{{}.{.10}}.seltime:1'
===============

Upon rebooting the machine, carefully choosing the correct kernel, the boot
process proceeds normally until it produced the following error on the
console:
===============
/lib/aic7xxx.0
 insmod errors can be caused by incorrect IO or IRQ .....
/bin/insmod exited abnormally
===============
The error text may not be exactly correct as it was scrolling when I tried
to catch it. I could not find the message in the boot sequence logged in
/var/log/messages or dmesg or in boot.log A fdisk -l did not show the SCSI
drives.

Next, if I do an insmod aic7xxx the module loads and the drives appear.

Help is really appreciated.




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