Adaptec AIC-7896U2/7897U2 controller throws SCSI errors in kernel log

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Tue Oct 19 20:02:59 UTC 2004


Am Di, den 19.10.2004 schrieb Alex Greg um 21:48:

> I recently purchased a 1U VA Linux server (second hand) with Fedora Core 
> 1 installed. It's been running more or less OK for a while, but 
> occasionally when I'm SSH'ed into the server (and editing a file in vi, 
> or whatever) the SSH sessions locks up and becomes unresponsive. The 
> machine is still pingable at this point, and when a new SSH connection 
> is made to the machine, it takes a long time to produce the password prompt.

> Whilst investigating this issue, I ran dmesg and came across the 
> following (attached). This seems to indicate a problem with the SCSI 
> system (the machine has 2 x 9GB SCSI drives attached, nothing else on 
> the SCSI bus). The output from lspci is:
> 
> 
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440GX - 82443GX Host bridge
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440GX - 82443GX AGP bridge
> 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] 
> (rev 08)
> 00:0c.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7896U2/7897U2
> 00:0c.1 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7896U2/7897U2

> aic7xxx_abort returns 0x2002
> scsi0:0:1:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message

The combination 440GX chipset and Adaptec Controllers with aic7xxx has a
long and endless story. See i.e.

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107880

and mentioned here too

http://www.fedorafaq.org/fc1/#AlanCox

At all, the machine produces so much (other) errors - I conclude it is
dieing.

Alexander


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