Need Advice regarding SCSI bus resets with HP9200 CD Writer

Dave Lee dblee at blackfoot.net
Tue Jun 19 15:39:31 PDT 2001


Dear Justin,

I'd like your advice on a problem I'm having with an HP9200 CD Writer.

I have been happily using a Sony Spressa CD Writer with no problems
...until it burned out!
I recently replaced it with the HP 9200.

The HP9200 is operational but provokes my SCSI bus to reset in an,
apparently, intermittent manner.

The problem always occurs with a time-out while the system is trying to
access my hard drive: 
.....
scsi : aborting command due to time-out : pid 36182, scsi0, channel 0,
id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 6f ba 78 00 00 80 00 
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 36180) timed out - resetting
....
When the HP9200 is removed from the buss everything works fine.

I've attached 2 files showing my SCSI boot log and kernel error
messages.
My system is an Intel DK440LX (Dakota) motherboard with AIC7895 and
pentium II 333 and 256MB RAM.
I'm running RedHat 6.2 (Kernel Ver: 2.2.14-5.0) "out of the box" (no
upgrades or patches).

Before I entangle myself with patching the kernel and the AIC78xx driver
I'd like to know your opinion on
what the chances are that this will solve the problem.  If there is a
great deal of uncertainty I'll 
just go looking for another Sony Spressa...


Thanks Very Much for your time,

Best Regards,
-Dave Lee 
   (Linux dilettante)
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This is the boot record of the scsi bus with the HP9200 installed at scsi0:0:6:0
This configuration provokes ocasional, apparently intermittant, SCSI bus timeouts/resets.
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Jun 19 13:32:56 dakota kernel: (scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7895 Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 0/9/0 
Jun 19 13:32:56 dakota kernel: (scsi0) Wide Channel A, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs 
Jun 19 13:32:56 dakota kernel: (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 384 instructions downloaded 
Jun 19 13:32:56 dakota kernel: enable_irq() unbalanced from d081b3c7 
Jun 19 13:32:56 dakota kernel: (scsi1) <Adaptec AIC-7895 Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 0/9/1 
Jun 19 13:32:56 dakota kernel: (scsi1) Wide Channel B, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs 
Jun 19 13:32:56 dakota kernel: (scsi1) Downloading sequencer code... 384 instructions downloaded 
Jun 19 13:32:56 dakota kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.28/3.2.4 
Jun 19 13:32:56 dakota kernel:        <Adaptec AIC-7895 Ultra SCSI host adapter> 
Jun 19 13:32:56 dakota kernel: scsi1 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.28/3.2.4 
Jun 19 13:32:56 dakota kernel:        <Adaptec AIC-7895 Ultra SCSI host adapter> 
Jun 19 13:32:56 dakota kernel: scsi : 2 hosts. 
Jun 19 13:32:56 dakota kernel: (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8. 
Jun 19 13:32:56 dakota kernel:   Vendor: QUANTUM   Model: VIKING 4.5 SCA    Rev: 880R 
Jun 19 13:32:56 dakota kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02 
Jun 19 13:32:56 dakota kernel: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 
Jun 19 13:32:56 dakota kernel: (scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8. 
Jun 19 13:32:56 dakota kernel:   Vendor: QUANTUM   Model: VIKING II 4.5WSE  Rev: 3506 
Jun 19 13:32:56 dakota kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02 
Jun 19 13:32:56 dakota kernel: Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 
Jun 19 13:32:56 dakota kernel: (scsi0:0:3:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. 
Jun 19 13:32:56 dakota kernel:   Vendor: TOSHIBA   Model: CD-ROM XM-6201TA  Rev: 1037 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel:   Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel: (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel:   Vendor: MATSHITA  Model: CD-ROM CR-508     Rev: XS03 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel:   Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel: (scsi0:0:5:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel:   Vendor: MATSHITA  Model: CD-ROM CR-508     Rev: XS03 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel:   Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr2 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel: (scsi0:0:6:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel:   Vendor: HP        Model: CD-Writer+ 9200   Rev: 1.0e 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel:   Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 04 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr3 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel: (scsi1:0:3:0) Synchronous at 5.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8. 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel:   Vendor: HP        Model: HP35480A          Rev: T603 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel:   Type:   Sequential-Access                  ANSI SCSI revision: 02 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel: (scsi1:0:4:0) Synchronous at 5.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel:   Vendor: iomega    Model: jaz 1GB           Rev: J.83 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel: Detected scsi removable disk sdc at scsi1, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel:   Vendor: IOMEGA    Model: ZIP 100           Rev: D.09 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel: Detected scsi removable disk sdd at scsi1, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel: Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel: sr3: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8899737 [4345 MB] [4.3 GB] 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel:  sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 > 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel: SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8910423 [4350 MB] [4.4 GB] 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel:  sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel: sdc : READ CAPACITY failed. 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel: sdc : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28  
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel: sdc : extended sense code = 2  
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel: sdc : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.   
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel:  sdc:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel:  unable to read partition table 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel: sdd : READ CAPACITY failed. 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel: sdd : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28  
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel: sdd : extended sense code = 2  
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel: sdd : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.   
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel:  sdd:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:30, sector 0 
Jun 19 13:32:57 dakota kernel:  unable to read partition table 
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This is a record of SCSI bus reset messages reported by the Linux 2.2.14-5.0 Kernel via the dmesg command.
This symptom only occurs when the HP9200 CD Writer is installed on the system.
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eout : pid 35952, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 6f 93 c0 00 00 80 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 35955, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 6f 94 40 00 00 80 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 35957, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 6f 94 c0 00 00 80 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 35960, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Write (6) 02 a6 df 80 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 35961, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Write (6) 02 a7 5f 80 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 35962, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Write (6) 02 a7 df 80 00 
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 35952) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
(scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 36180, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 6f b9 f8 00 00 80 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 36181, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 82 40 66 00 00 02 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 36182, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 6f ba 78 00 00 80 00 
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 36180) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
(scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 36182) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 36182) timed out - trying harder
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
(scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 36182) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 36182) timed out - trying harder
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
(scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 36253, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 6f c1 f8 00 00 80 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 36258, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 6f c2 78 00 00 80 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 36259, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Write (6) 02 ef 2f 80 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 36260, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 6f c2 f8 00 00 80 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 36261, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Write (6) 02 ef af 80 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 36262, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Write (6) 02 f0 2f 80 00 
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 36253) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
(scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 36310, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 6f c6 08 00 00 80 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 36311, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 6f c6 88 00 00 48 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 36312, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 82 40 66 00 00 02 00 
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 36310) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
(scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 36329, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 6f c7 d0 00 00 80 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 36336, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 6f c8 50 00 00 38 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 36337, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 82 77 52 00 00 02 00 
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 36329) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
(scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 36393, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 6f d0 08 00 00 80 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 36399, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 6f d0 88 00 00 48 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 36401, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Write (6) 03 02 87 80 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 36402, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 82 40 66 00 00 02 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 36403, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Write (6) 03 03 07 80 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 36404, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Write (6) 03 03 87 40 00 
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 36393) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
(scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 47263, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 49 ff 00 00 00 58 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 47264, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Write (6) 0c fe c7 80 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 47265, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Write (6) 0c ff 47 80 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 47266, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 65 53 c0 00 00 08 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 47267, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Write (6) 0c ff c7 80 00 
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 47264) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
(scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 54009, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 5b a0 88 00 00 68 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 54010, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Write (6) 05 ad b7 80 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 54011, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Write (6) 05 ae 37 80 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 54012, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 5b a0 f0 00 00 80 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 54013, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Write (6) 05 ae b7 80 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 54014, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 5b a1 70 00 00 80 00 
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 54011) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
(scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 54320, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 5b ba 18 00 00 80 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 54324, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 5b ba 98 00 00 68 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 54325, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 3c 31 d7 00 00 80 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 54326, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 5b bb 00 00 00 18 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 54327, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 3c 32 57 00 00 80 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 54328, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 3c 32 d7 00 00 80 00 
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 54320) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
(scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 54326) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 54326) timed out - trying harder
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
(scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.


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