Re: SCSI write errors with Onstream ADR50 drive

From: Ha Quoc- Viet (qvha@axlog.fr)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2000 - 10:49:16 EST


Tom Sedge wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We've installed a new Onstream ADR50 drive (SCSI Ultra 3 LVD bus). It is
> sitting in a machine with the following spec:
>
> ASUS P2DS motherboard
> 2 x Dual PII 400Mhz
> 384RAM
> Onboard Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI Ultra 3 LVD bus
> 1 x Seagate Cheeta 9.1Gb SCSI drive
> 3 x Seagate Cheeta 18.2Gb SCSI drives
> D-link DFE530TX 10/100 Ethernet PCI
> RedHat Linux 6.1 patched to kernel 2.2.13 + ac3 (SMP).
> Software raid 5 across the 3 18.2Gb drives (not the boot drive)
>
> The drive is properly recognised and reported on startup, and assigned to
> /dev/st0.
>
> All is well until we try reading or writing to a tape. The drive starts
> to show write/read behaviour and then nothing happens for a minute or so
> until a large number of SCSI write errors are reported by the kernel. At
> this point the SCSI bus seems to go bananas an the hard drive light goes
> fully on. The machine then stops responding and a reset is needed (to
> reset the SCSI bus). After coming back up the machine is fine, and no
> problems occur unless we try accessing the drive. Nothing is logged in
> the system logs and there are no 'oopses'.
>
> We've checked for SCSI Id conflicts and termination of the bus. Both seem
> to be ok. Could this be an SMP problem? The addition of the ADR drive is
> the only change to this machine recently.
>
> If anyone can help, I'd be most grateful.

Have a look at Documentation/configure.help
grep for "OnStream".
it's written that no support is available for the SC-30
and SC-50 versions. DI-30 is working though (minus a few glitches)
but it's IDE ...

don't know how recent is this document though ...

Viet

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