AIC7xxx 6.2.8: "no active SCB for reconnecting target"

AIC7xxx 6.2.8: "no active SCB for reconnecting target"

Post by Matthias Andre » Sat, 14 Jun 2003 10:50:12



Hi,

I have some new issues on machine with AIC7880 that has been stable for
almost 5 years, and also after the last updates half a year ago. These
troubles have started recently when I removed a Permedia2 video card
(PCI), but the card has been put back, yet the troubles persist (I don't
think it's related, but I mention it anyways), so I think this is a
coincidence.

After some resets, the kernel discards /dev/sdb and /dev/sg1 and returns
EIO for all accesses to the partitions mounted from that drive, but
remains otherwise stable.

I'm pasting the kernel log below. I wonder if this is:

a) a hint to a driver bug that by sheer luck hasn't hit me so far
   (I'd rebuild a more recent kernel in that case -- but this is a
   production machine, so I can't play try this try that games. "Try
   this, it should have been fixed" games are fine though.)

b) hardware deterioration (but sformat -verify hasn't found any issues
   on any of the drives attached) -- the SCSI bus configuration has not
   changed in years. "smartctl -a" 5.1 reports S.M.A.R.T. "GOOD" condition.

c) firmware bug in hard disk drives (unchanged for years).

Any insights appreciated. (I'm stripping date and host and kernel: tag, all
messages were logged in the same second.)

scsi0:A:2: no active SCB for reconnecting target - issuing BUS DEVICE RESET
SAVED_SCSIID == 0x27, SAVED_LUN == 0x0, ARG_1 == 0x3e ACCUM = 0x0
SEQ_FLAGS == 0x0, SCBPTR == 0xf, BTT == 0xff, SINDEX == 0x31
SCSIID == 0x27, SCB_SCSIID == 0x27, SCB_LUN == 0x0, SCB_TAG == 0xff, SCB_CONTROL == 0x68
SCSIBUSL == 0x3e, SCSISIGI == 0xe6
SXFRCTL0 == 0x88
SEQCTL == 0x10
scsi0: Dumping Card State in Message-in phase, at SEQADDR 0x1b6
ACCUM = 0x0, SINDEX = 0x31, DINDEX = 0xc0, ARG_2 = 0xf
HCNT = 0x0 SCBPTR = 0xf
SCSISEQ = 0x12, SBLKCTL = 0x2
 DFCNTRL = 0x4, DFSTATUS = 0x6d
LASTPHASE = 0xe0, SCSISIGI = 0xe6, SXFRCTL0 = 0x88
SSTAT0 = 0x7, SSTAT1 = 0x3
STACK == 0x190, 0x160, 0xe4, 0x13b
SCB count = 68
Kernel NEXTQSCB = 62
Card NEXTQSCB = 62
QINFIFO entries:
Waiting Queue entries:
Disconnected Queue entries: 12:1
QOUTFIFO entries:
Sequencer Free SCB List: 15 0 8 5 10 3 6 2 13 9 11 7 1 14 4
Sequencer SCB Info: 0(c 0x68, s 0x27, l 0, t 0xff) 1(c 0x68, s 0x7, l 0, t 0xff) 2(c 0x68, s 0x7, l 0, t 0xff) 3(c 0x68, s 0x7, l 0, t
 0xff) 4(c 0x68, s 0x7, l 0, t 0xff) 5(c 0x68, s 0x27, l 0, t 0xff) 6(c 0x68, s 0x7, l 0, t 0xff) 7(c 0x68, s 0x7, l 0, t 0xff) 8(c 0x68, s 0x27, l 0, t 0xff) 9(c 0x
68, s 0x7, l 0, t 0xff) 10(c 0x68, s 0x7, l 0, t 0xff) 11(c 0x68, s 0x7, l 0, t 0xff) 12(c 0x6c, s 0x27, l 0, t 0x1) 13(c 0x68, s 0x7, l 0, t 0xff) 14(c 0x68, s 0x7,
 l 0, t 0xff) 15(c 0x68, s 0x27, l 0, t 0xff)
Pending list: 1(c 0x68, s 0x27, l 0)
Kernel Free SCB list: 48 30 57 31 13 15 24 11 58 26 49 22 60 59 43 23 38 51 36 19 41 46 61 21 63 3 17 14 34 0 20 55 53 42 2 10 12 8 28
 6 9 56 5 54 44 47 27 16 32 52 50 45 67 35 18 7 39 25 4 40 29 37 33 66 65 64
DevQ(0:0:0): 0 waiting
DevQ(0:2:0): 0 waiting
DevQ(0:4:0): 0 waiting
scsi0: Bus Device Reset on A:2. 1 SCBs aborted

--
Matthias Andree
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AIC7xxx 6.2.8: "no active SCB for reconnecting target"

Post by Matthias Andre » Sat, 14 Jun 2003 11:40:12



> I have some new issues on machine with AIC7880 that has been stable for
> almost 5 years, and also after the last updates half a year ago. These
> troubles have started recently when I removed a Permedia2 video card
> (PCI), but the card has been put back, yet the troubles persist (I don't
> think it's related, but I mention it anyways), so I think this is a
> coincidence.

It wasn't. Somebody else looked at the hardware, he found that the
cabling was triggering these faults (it had _not_ been removed from the
drives or host adaptor) and reproduced the issue and then fixed the
cable. So consider this closed.
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1. ERROR - SCSI0: No active SCB for reconnecting target 4

Hi there, I get the following error when running:
# e2fsck /dev/sdd1 -c

(It checks for badblocks and everything goes ok but when it comes
to PASS 1 it gives me, and the machine freezes up)
------------THE ERROR MESSAGE-------------
SCSI0: No active SCB for reconnecting target 4, channel A, Issuing
ABORT. SAVED_TCL (0x40)
Kernel panic: scsi0: Target 4, chanel A, did not send an IDENTITY
message. SAVED_TCL 0x40
The swapper task - not syncing
------------END OF ERROR------------------

The following is some system informaion:
Platform:               Intel 150MMX 96Meg RAM
Linux OS version:       RedHat 4.2 Kernel 2.0.30
Network:                Normal NE2000 Ethernet 10Mbs
Drive information:
                        /swop   /dev/sda1       72 Meg
                        /       /dev/sda2       1  Gig
                        /disk2  /dev/sdb1       2  Gig
                        /disk3  /dev/sdc1       4  Gig
                        /disk4  /dev/sdd1       4  Gig
                        /disk5  /dev/sde1       4  Gig
SCSI Adapter:           Adaptech 2940W

I have no idea what it could be or even where to try looking for the
problem. The drive information seems to be OK woth not complaints
about corrupt or incomplete data.

Many thanks in advance

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