Not sure if I should be posting this here, or in the Slackware forum. But I'll try here first. I've just rebuilt my system, that was running Slack 10.0, kernel 2.4.26, with Slack 10.1, kernel 2.6.10. It's exactly th same hardware, nothing changed. Now, I'm getting a bunch of messages abont scsi Parity Errors.
Her's what I get when i "modprobe aic7xxx":
Jul 8 01:08:40 The-Tardis kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
Jul 8 01:08:40 The-Tardis kernel: <Adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter>
Jul 8 01:08:40 The-Tardis kernel: aic7870: Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs
Jul 8 01:08:40 The-Tardis kernel:
Jul 8 01:08:47 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr = 0x7
Jul 8 01:08:47 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: Data Parity Error Detected during address or write data phase
Jul 8 01:08:54 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr = 0x8
Jul 8 01:08:54 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: Data Parity Error Detected during address or write data phase
Jul 8 01:08:57 The-Tardis kernel: (scsi0:A:0): 5.000MB/s transfers (5.000MHz, offset 15)
Jul 8 01:08:59 The-Tardis kernel: Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jul 8 01:08:59 The-Tardis kernel: st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B), max page reachable by HBA 1048575
Jul 8 01:09:07 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr = 0x9
Jul 8 01:09:07 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: Data Parity Error Detected during address or write data phase
Jul 8 01:09:13 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr = 0x9
Jul 8 01:09:13 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: Data Parity Error Detected during address or write data phase
Jul 8 01:09:17 The-Tardis kernel: st0: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes.
Jul 8 01:09:24 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr = 0x9
Jul 8 01:09:24 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: Data Parity Error Detected during address or write data phase
Jul 8 01:09:31 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr = 0x7
Jul 8 01:09:31 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: Data Parity Error Detected during address or write data phase
Jul 8 01:09:37 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr = 0x7
Jul 8 01:09:37 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: Data Parity Error Detected during address or write data phase
Jul 8 01:09:43 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr = 0x8
Jul 8 01:09:43 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: Data Parity Error Detected during address or write data phase
And the errors keep repeating every 8 seconds, or so. After I actually use the drive, the messages change to:
Jul 8 01:10:03 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr = 0x8
Jul 8 01:10:03 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: Data Parity Error Detected during address or write data phase
Jul 8 01:10:03 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING
Jul 8 01:10:03 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: Too many PCI parity errors observed as a target.
Jul 8 01:10:03 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: Some device on this bus is generating bad parity.
Jul 8 01:10:03 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: This is an error *observed by*, not *generated by*, this controller.
Jul 8 01:10:03 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: PCI parity error checking has been disabled.
Jul 8 01:10:03 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING
Jul 8 01:10:10 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr = 0x9
Jul 8 01:10:10 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: Data Parity Error Detected during address or write data phase
Jul 8 01:10:10 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING
Jul 8 01:10:10 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: Too many PCI parity errors observed as a target.
Jul 8 01:10:10 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: Some device on this bus is generatingbad parity.
Jul 8 01:10:10 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: This is an error *observed by*, not *generated by*, this controller.
Jul 8 01:10:10 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: PCI parity error checking has been disabled.
Jul 8 01:10:10 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING
Jul 8 01:11:07 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr = 0x8
Jul 8 01:11:07 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: Data Parity Error Detected during address or write data phase
Jul 8 01:11:07 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING
Jul 8 01:11:07 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: Too many PCI parity errors observed as a target.
Jul 8 01:11:07 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: Some device on this bus is generating bad parity.
Jul 8 01:11:07 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: This is an error *observed by*, not *generated by*, this controller.
Jul 8 01:11:07 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: PCI parity error checking has been disabled.
Jul 8 01:11:07 The-Tardis kernel: scsi0: WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING
And again, they repeat every 8 seconds.
The tape drive appears to work fine, so even if no-one knows how to stop the errors, does anyone know how to stop them being logged in /var/log/syslog, as it's getting HUGE.
Cheers,
Eddie