SCSI madness

[A. Khattri]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Net Llama! wrote:

> I've been tearing my hair out for the past 4 days trying to deal with SCSI
> errors on a box runnign FC3.
>
> For the past week or so, whenever I boot up, see the following error on
> the console:
> sym0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=132 DBC=50000000 SBCL=0
>
> When the above error occurs, the box functions just fine, but i fear for
> my data.  In fact, sometimes, i don't get the error above, and the
> box boots up fine, and then as soon as the login prompt appears, i start
> seeing SCSI reset/abort errors instead.  When the reset/abort errors show
> up then i can't do anything, all input fails to register and the box can
> only be reset.
>
> FWIW, i'm using an old symbios 8951 SCSI controller.  I've replaced the
> SCSI drive, the SCSI cable, and now the controller, and yet the fscking
> error persists.
>
> I'm at a loss as to how this error can persist when i've replaced every
> component on the chain.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?


Did some Googling and this might be a flaky Symbios driver in the 2.6
kernel:

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-Oct/1745.html


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