Boot Delays and Messages on RH7.1 Linux + AHA2940AU

[Tom Coughlan]

"Justin T. Gibbs" wrote:
> 
> >I'm not sure this is the same problem reported earlier, but it sure is a
> >pain.
> >
> >When the AIC-7896 is probed, there is a ~6 second delay for every bus ID
> >on both channels, accompanied by the error messages indicating:
> >- Attempting to queue an ABORT message
> >- Command already completed
> >- scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after bus
> >reset: host 1 channel 0 id n lun 0
> >
> >I will send the verbose output to Justin.
> 
> Linux isn't seeing any interrupts.  So, every command must "time-out"
> in order for us to see it as having completed.  If you enable APIC-I/O
> in your kernel configuration you should get your interrupts back.

Yes, this was the problem, and the fix worked, for the Adaptec ports as
well as the other ports in the system that were giving me trouble.

Thank-you Justin.

-- 
Tom Coughlan
Mission Critical Linux
tel: 978-606-0262
coughlan at missioncriticallinux.com

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