linux (debian), 2.6.7-2, hang.

[nihaopaul]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shaul Karl" <shaulk at 013.net.il>
To: <aic7xxx at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 6:40 AM
Subject: linux (debian), 2.6.7-2, hang.


>   The system gets hang from time to time. I believe this is an aic7xxx
> related issue because when ever this happens the SCSI led activity
> remains on. Other then that I don't have more information because the
> logs shows nothing. Do give me instructions on how to get more
> information.
>   The system runs kde and whenever I reboot kde display the last screen
> shot that were displayed when the hang occurred and then runs kdm.
>   Some boot messages that shows some of the hardware follows:
>
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: Linux version 2.6.7-2.pentium2.1 (root at sitvanit) (gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian)) #1 Mon Jul 5
03:26:43 IDT 2004
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: ACPI disabled because your bios is from 99 and too old
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: You can enable it with acpi=force
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: Found and enabled local APIC!
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: Initializing CPU#0
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: Using local APIC timer interrupts.
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: calibrating APIC timer ...
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: ..... CPU clock speed is 233.0823 MHz.
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: ..... host bus clock speed is 66.0806 MHz.
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb1b0, last bus=1
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 0000:00:07.0
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au)
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: devfs: boot_options: 0x0
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: Initializing Cryptographic API
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa0
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 4
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 5
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: EISA: Detected 0 cards.
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:11.0
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel:         <Adaptec 2940 Ultra2 SCSI adapter (OEM)>
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel:         aic7890/91: Ultra2 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel:
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: Using anticipatory io scheduler
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: (scsi0:A:0): 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit)
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel:   Vendor: QUANTUM   Model: VIKING II 9.1WLS  Rev: 5520
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: scsi0:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 253
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: (scsi0:A:1): 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 30, 16bit)
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel:   Vendor: IBM       Model: DNES-309170W      Rev: SAH0
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: scsi0:A:1:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 253
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: (scsi0:A:6): 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 16)
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel:   Vendor: TOSHIBA   Model: XM6201TASUN32XCD  Rev: 1103
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel:   Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: SCSI device sda: 17836668 512-byte hdwr sectors (9132 MB)
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel:  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 < p5 p6 > p4
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: SCSI device sdb: 17916240 512-byte hdwr sectors (9173 MB)
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel:  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p2
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
>
>
>   Thank you.
> -- 
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you could set up a serial terminal console to log to another box, I had done it with FreeBSD like Justin Gibbs suggested, you'll
have to do a little googling for it but it is a possibility (I hope. I was running FreeBSD).
as for your problem things I would look into is..

> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: ACPI disabled because your bios is from 99 and too old
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel:   Vendor: QUANTUM   Model: VIKING II 9.1WLS  Rev: 5520
> Aug  5 00:19:57 calanit kernel:   Vendor: IBM       Model: DNES-309170W      Rev: SAH0


check for bios, firmware and driver updates for your mobo/scsi controller and drives ;)