Boot Delays and Messages on RH7.1 Linux + AHA2940AU

Justin T. Gibbs gibbs at scsiguy.com
Thu Aug 16 07:07:52 PDT 2001


>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.

--
Justin

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