Problem summary: I can't get my scsi card to work (using isapnp). I want to use it to connect a Jaz drive to my box.
System:
Slackware 8.1 (kernel 2.4.18)
AMD-K6 PC, 64KB RAM
SCSI Card: Symbios Logic 53c416
What I Observe:
First, upon boot, the following message may be relevant. It's the only scsi message in the boot:
[snip]
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted
[snip]
The help text associated with the sym53c416 driver says if you are using isapnp (as I am), you must compile it as a loadable module. (Although I did try to compile it into the kernel as well, with no success.) Because it hangs my system, I took all the scsi stuff out of the boot process and have been testing it manually.
My commands are thus:
root> modprobe isa-pnp
root> isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
Board 1 has Identity 62 ff ff ff ff 61 41 89 4d: SLI4161 Serial No -1 [checksum 62]
SLI4161/-1[0]{SYM 53C416 }: Port 0x220; IRQ12 --- Enabled OK
root> modprobe sg <---I'm still learning, so I'm throwing in
root> modprobe st both sg and st. Sd is compiled in.
root> modprobe scsi_hostadapter
root> modprobe sym53c416
(Adding "sym53c416=0x220,12" to the last line responds the same)
What happens then is that my terminal will hang with no errors/output. (If I use insmod instead, I only get "Using /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/scsi/sym53c416.o".) In another terminal, I can see the process running in ps, but am unable to kill it, even with kill -9.
In the messages log, the relevant lines are:
Dec 9 02:27:48 ned kernel: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
Dec 9 02:27:48 ned kernel: isapnp: Card 'SYM 53C416'
Dec 9 02:27:48 ned kernel: isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
Dec 9 02:28:25 ned kernel: sym53c416.c: Version 1.0.0-ac
Dec 9 02:28:25 ned kernel: sym53c416: ISAPnP card found and configured at 0x220, IRQ 12.
Dec 9 02:28:25 ned kernel: scsi0 : Symbios Logic 53c416 (rev. 151) at 0x220, irq 12, SCSI-ID 7, fast pio
In the syslog, the relevant lines are:
Dec 9 02:28:25 ned kernel: No sym53c416 found at address 0x000
Dec 9 02:28:31 ned kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Inquiry 00 00 00 ff 00
Dec 9 02:28:37 ned kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Inquiry 00 00 00 ff 00
Dec 9 02:28:37 ned kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting
Dec 9 02:28:37 ned kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
Dec 9 02:28:37 ned kernel: SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 0) timed out - trying harder
Dec 9 02:28:37 ned kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
Dec 9 02:28:38 ned kernel: SCSI host 0 reset (pid 0) timed out again -
Dec 9 02:28:38 ned kernel: probably an unrecoverable SCSI bus or device hang.
After I attempt "modprobe sym53c416", here are the contents of some files in /proc:
interrupts:
CPU0
0: 202112 XT-PIC timer
1: 2 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
4: 15555 XT-PIC eth1
5: 13200 XT-PIC eth0
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
12: 0 XT-PIC sym53c416
14: 5334 XT-PIC ide0
15: 5 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0
ioports:
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
0213-0213 : isapnp read
0220-023f : sym53c416
02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
0376-0376 : ide1
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
0a79-0a79 : isapnp write
0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1
c000-cfff : PCI Bus #01
d000-d00f : VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE
d000-d007 : ide0
d008-d00f : ide1
d400-d41f : VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB
d800-d83f : Ensoniq ES1370 [AudioPCI]
dc00-dc1f : Winbond Electronics Corp W89C940
dc00-dc1f : ne2k-pci
e000-e03f : Intel Corp. 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100]
e000-e03f : eepro100
modules:
sym53c416 6424 (initializing)
st 26288 0 (unused)
sg 28828 0 (unused)
isa-pnp 27344 0 [sym53c416]
ipt_MASQUERADE 1176 1 (autoclean)
ipt_LOG 3128 1 (autoclean)
ipt_state 568 1 (autoclean)
iptable_nat 12536 1 (autoclean) [ipt_MASQUERADE]
ip_conntrack 12568 2 (autoclean) [ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_state iptable_nat]
iptable_filter 1672 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 10360 7 [ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_LOG ipt_state iptable_nat iptable_filter]
ne2k-pci 4928 1
8390 5792 0 [ne2k-pci]
eepro100 17208 1
isapnp:
Card 1 'SLI4161:SYM 53C416' PnP version 1.0 Product version 0.1
Logical device 0 'SLI4163:Unknown'
Supported registers 0x2
Device is active
Active port 0xffff,0xffff,0xffff,0xffff,0xffff,0xffff,0xffff,0xffff
Active IRQ 255 [0xff],255 [0xff]
Active DMA 255,255
Active memory 0xffffffff,0xffffffff,0xffffffff,0xffffffff
Resources 0
Priority preferred
Port 0x200-0xffe0, align 0x1f, size 0x20, 16-bit address decoding
IRQ 4,5,7,10,11,12,15 High-Edge
scsi/scsi:
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: Model: Rev:
Type: <NULL> ANSI SCSI revision: ffffffff
scsi/sym53c416/0:
Symbios Logic 53c416 (rev. 151) at 0x220, irq 12, SCSI-ID 7, fast pio
Further settings:
/etc/modules.conf is empty.
/etc/rc.d/rc.modules has no (uncommented) lines regarding scsi.
/etc/isapnp.conf (uncommented lines):
(READPORT 0x0273)
(ISOLATE PRESERVE)
(IDENTIFY *)
(VERBOSITY 2)
(CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING
(CONFIGURE SLI4161/-1 (LD 0
(IO 0 (SIZE 32) (BASE 0x0220))
(INT 0 (IRQ 12 (MODE +E)))
(NAME "SLI4161/-1[0]{SYM 53C416 }")
(ACT Y)
))
My kernel began as scsi.s, which I then reconfigured as such (from /usr/src/linux/.config) and recompiled:
# SCSI support
#
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_SD_EXTRA_DEVS=40
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_OSST=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR is not set
CONFIG_SR_EXTRA_DEVS=2
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m
CONFIG_SCSI_DEBUG_QUEUES=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y
CONFIG_SCSI_LOGGING=y
# SCSI low-level drivers
[snip... only the following is set]
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C416=m
The current setup works fine when I boot to Windows ME, so I believe that rules out hardware problems.
If more info is needed, please ask. I will post the solution, if I should come to one. Thank you for any help.
--Kate
kate@drizzle.com
