[parisc-linux] 9000/730 booting but SCSI Problems (mke2fs)

[Richard Hirst]

Hi Jeff,
  Looks like your scsi sub-system basically works, as you have presumably
managed to partition your disk with fdisk, and you say the disks are
detected ok on boot.  So, this doesn't look like the problem we have
with older machines and lack of documentation.  On those older machines
we don't even detect the disks.

First, can you send your boot messages so I can see what sort of machine
you have and want is on the scsi bus.

Then you should check scsi bus termination and maybe try a different
cable (unless you know the h/w works with some other OS).

You could try booting with "sim700=nodisc:0xff" on the command line to
prevent scsi disconnect/reselect cycles.

You could try some small scsi data transfers with 'dd' to see if it works
for simple things.

Richard


On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 11:54:02PM +0100, Jeff Arthur wrote:
> After help form Christoph Plattner I resolved my init 
> problems, and got a prompt!! 
> 
> (Thanks Christoph, I had the problem you 
> described a couple of builds earlier so 
> recreated the problem, applied your fix and it 
> worked a treat)
> 
> however I now have a problem with SCSI, all 
> devices are seen ok, have removed cdrom as I 
> noted in some earlier posts that this could 
> cause problems, but when creating filesystems 
> the SCSI dies.
> 
> I have tried a couple of drives, boot log looks 
> fine.  Any Suggestions or is this just down to 
> lack of docs in this area, as I noted from posts 
> back in Feb?
> 
> hpbox:~# mke2fs /dev/sda3
> mke2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> Filesystem label=
> OS type: Linux
> Block size=4096 (log=2)
> Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
> 71520 inodes, 142991 blocks
> 7149 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
> First data block=0
> 5 block groups
> 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
> 14304 inodes per group
> Superblock backups stored on blocks:
>         32768, 98304
> 
> Writing inode tables: done
> scsi0: Unable to abort command for target 2
> scsi0: Unable to send Bus Device Reset for target 2
> scsi0: Unable to do SCSI bus reset
> scsi0: >>>>>>>>>>>> Host reset <<<<<<<<<<<<
> scsi0: istat = 0c, sstat0 = 00, sstat1 = 00, dstat = 00
> scsi0: dsp = 000b2038 (script[0x080e]), dsps = 000b2cde, target = 0
> scsi0: Failing command for ID2
> SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 2 lun 0 return code = 2
>  I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 160
>  I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 162
>  I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 0
>  I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 288
>  I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 416
>  I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 544...
> 
> 
> ... I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 1052022
>  I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 1052150
> Warning: could not erase block 0: Attempt to write block from filesystem resulte
>  I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 2
> d in short write I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 8
> 
> Writing superb I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 262144
> locks and filesy I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 262152
> stem accounting  I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 524288
> information:  I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 786432
>  I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 786440
>  I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 1048576
> done
>  I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 2
>  I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 8
>  I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 262144
>  I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 262152
>  I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 786432
>  I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 786440
> 
> 
> Thought for the Day:
>    Home is where you hang your @
> 
> 
> 
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