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

[Jeff Arthur]

Thanks Richard, the commnad line change you described seems 
to have worked a treat.

My problem has now moved on, have got all things up and running 
of the hard disk now, but a few key exes are hanging, rpc.lockd, 
nscd, tar etc.

The ones in the init i have got around by removing the entries from 
rcx.d etc, but not being able to use tar is a pain.

>From posts around feb it looked like there was a known problem 
with spinlock.  Has any progress been made in that area?

ta
Jeffa

> 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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