Re: 2.6.3 and SBP2 problems.

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Harald Kubota wrote:

> Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> > Anyone else know how I can fix this? Is anyone else having these problems
> > with ieee1394 drives with 2.6.*?
> >
>
> Problems: yes. Unsolveable: no. Explainable (for me): no.
>
> I've got 4 external disks, 2 OXFW911, 1 SYM13FW500, 1 OXFW922 and
> 4 different Firewire adapter cards (Lucent FW323, VIA 6xxx, TI and
> another TI chipset) and 1 6 port hub. All have no problems with a single
> disk and a single PC. All show similar problems with many disks when
> reading/writing a lot to many disks.
>
> But those problems are solveable with "serialize_io=1".
>
> However, once in a while, depending on luck and the cabeling (the hub
> seems to be the tricky part), disks (usually the SYM13FW500 disk) is not
> recognized. Recabeling and loading the sbp2 module again usually solves
> it. Once all disks are recognized, I so far had no problems with the
> disks at all. Even using RAID5 setups, which stresses the bus and the
> disks a lot.
>
>
> >>>>> sda:<3>ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command
> >>>>>0x28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
>
> This is what I get when 1 disk is not being recognized.

Unfortunately, given that this has happened with 2.6.3 on four separate
machines (each with a different card and different cables), and 2.6.5 on
two separate machines, it seems unlikely to be the cabling.

Adam

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Received on Sat Apr 17 14:27:46 2004