Re: [PATCH] scsi_error device offline fix

[andy barlak]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> Try removing the scsi_load_identifier call in scsi_scan.c and
> see if you can boot. And/or get sg_utils and on your 2.4 system
> send a INQUIRY page 0 to the device, and see if that hangs or
> not, like:

On this 2.4.19 box with the Buslogic 958, that command hangs:
# ./sg_inq -e -o=0 /dev/sg1
EVPD INQUIRY, page code=0x00:

Dmesg reports a growing list of:
.
.
.
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 41290) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
scsi0: Resetting BusLogic BT-958 due to Target 1
scsi0: *** BusLogic BT-958 Initialized Successfully ***
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 41292) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
scsi0: Resetting BusLogic BT-958 due to Target 1
scsi0: *** BusLogic BT-958 Initialized Successfully ***
.
.
.

> On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:58:04PM -0700, andy barlak wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> > > Can you turn on all scsi logging - with CONFIG_SCSI_LOGGING enabled,
> > > on your boot command line add a "scsi_logging=1" and send
> > > the output.
> > >
> > > -- Patrick Mansfield
> >
> > Sure.  large dmesg buffer required.  This produced a 55k file that
> > I will pare down to what I consider informative.
>
> It looks like the INQUIRY page code 0 is timing out and appears to have
> hung the bus, as all other commands sent to the bus then timeout.
>
> It's surprising that that would hang the bus.
>
> That driver really needs at least some basic reset handling.
>
> Try removing the scsi_load_identifier call in scsi_scan.c and
> see if you can boot. And/or get sg_utils and on your 2.4 system
> send a INQUIRY page 0 to the device, and see if that hangs or
> not, like:
>
> [patman@elm3a50 sg_utils]$ sudo ./sg_inq  -e -o=0 /dev/sg1
> EVPD INQUIRY, page code=0x00:
>  Only hex output supported
>  00     00 00 00 0c 00 03 80 81  c0 c1 c2 c3 c7 c8 d1 d2    ................
>
> FYI sg_utils is at:
>
> http://www.torque.net/sg/index.html#Utilities:%20sg_utils%20and%20sg3_utils
> http://www.torque.net/sg/p/sg3_utils-1.01.tgz
>
> -- Patrick Mansfield
>

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 Andy Barlak