Critical bug ? (pcmcia-cs SCSI apa1460A) 

Forum: PCMCIA SCSI Host Adapter Issues
Date: 2000, Jan 22
From: Maya Tamiya maya

Hi, I'm having trouble trying to use SCSI hard disk drive with a PCMCIA card, and it seems to be a PCMCIA problem to me. - On using pcmcia-cs SCSI (APA-1460A), the filesystem corrupts. - I did all the tests on both linux 2.0.36 and 2.0.38, and the results were the same. The tests were done on pcmcia-cs-3.0.[5-9], 3.0.{13,14}, 3.1.{7,8}, and they succeeded (no error occured) only in the case of 3.0.5. - It seems that the error tends to occure when the load average gets high. - Symptoms * "e2fsck -f -v /dev/sda1" sometimes fails. * Even if the first e2fsck try is successful, it ends up failing if I repeat some more right after that. * If I terminate it with C-c instead of inputting <y> after failing and try again, then sometimes it does not fail. However, it ends up failing if I repeat some more. * I didn't do any "mount" during the test, of course. * In the case of 3.0.5, I got no fail out of more than 100 e2fsck's on exactly the same file system (without any fixing). * I've given it a total of more than 150 tests with 3 HDDs, and the only case it didn't fail was the case of 3.0.5. * I believe there is no problem with quality and setting of my hardware, because it never failed at all in the case of 3.0.5, in which I replaced only pcmcia-cs without touching anything but the keyboad. Replacing it with other versions again and giving some more tries would get it a failure. - Error messages [dmesg] aha152x: more data than expected (2 bytes) aha152x: data ( 0 0 ) (*** every time the same) [fsck] Inode 209163 has illegal block(s). Clear<y>? or Deleted inode 245289 has zero dtime. Fix<y>? etc. (the numbers (209163 and 245289) change every time.) - PCMCIA log Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.5 kernel build: 2.0.38 #1 Tue Jan 18 08:16:13 JST 2000 options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm] Intel PCIC probe: Cirrus PD6832 CardBus at mem 0x68000000, 2 sockets host opts [0]: [ring] [0/7/4] [3/17/4] [no pci irq] [lat 168/176] [bus 32/34 ] host opts [1]: [ring] [0/7/4] [3/17/4] [no pci irq] [lat 168/176] [bus 35/37 ] ISA irqs (default) = 3,4,5,7,11,12 status change on irq 11 cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x03ff: excluding 0x220-0x22f 0x2f8-0x2ff 0x398-0x39f 0 x3f8-0x3ff cs: IO port probe 0x0a20-0x0a27: clean. Swansea University Computer Society IPX 0.34 for NET3.035 IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc. Appletalk 0.17 for Linux NET3.035 --- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- (snip) --- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- cs: warning: no high memory space available! cs: memory probe 0x0d0000-0x0dffff: excluding 0xdc000-0xdffff cs: memory probe 0x0e0000-0x0effff: excluding 0xe0000-0xeffff cs: memory probe 0x0c0000-0x0cffff: excluding 0xc0000-0xcbfff eth0: 3Com 3c589, port 0x300, irq 3, Auto port, hw_addr 00:60:97:93:1A:AB Swansea University Computer Society IPX 0.34 for NET3.035 IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc. Appletalk 0.17 for Linux NET3.035 aha152x: processing commandline: ok aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s) eth0: autodetected 10baseT aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x340, IRQ=5, SCSI ID=7, reconnect=enabled, parit y=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100, extended translation=disabled aha152x: trying software interrupt, ok. scsi0 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver; $Revision: 1.18 $ scsi : 1 host. Vendor: MELCO Model: DSC-UE8.3G Rev: 1.05 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Vendor: MELCO Model: DSC-UE8.3G Rev: 1.05 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Vendor: MELCO Model: DSC-UE8.3G Rev: 1.04 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 16405632 [8010 MB] [8.0 GB] sda: sda1 SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 16405632 [8010 MB] [8.0 GB] sdb: sdb1 SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 16405632 [8010 MB] [8.0 GB] sdc: sdc1 sdc2 * The line "cs: warning: no high memory space available!" disappears after I eject and insert the card. * 3.0.5 does not recognize insertion of the card, so I do "cardctl insert" after I insert the card. Thank you very much! -- Thank you, maya

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1. I think it has to do with the CardBus bridge setup by David Hinds, 2000, Jan 24

(_ Yes, thank you and with 3COM's CardBus NIC 3CCFE575CT? by Maya Tamiya, 2000, Jan 27

(_ I'm afraid so by David Hinds, 2000, Jan 27

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