ABORT message after hours of working

[Ard van Breemen]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 07:26:36AM -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> >I do not know who wants to queue that ABORT message, but the problem is,
> >that the device get's kicked out of the raid configuration.
> 
> The problem here has to do with these guys:
> 
> >Attached devices: 
> >Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
> >  Vendor: SEAGATE  Model: ST318404LW       Rev: 0002
> >  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 03
> >Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
> >  Vendor: SEAGATE  Model: ST318404LW       Rev: 0002
> >  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 03
> >Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00
> >  Vendor: SEAGATE  Model: ST318404LW       Rev: 0002
> >  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 03
> 
> IIRC, Seagate fixed a cache bug in these drives with firmware rev 0005.
> When the cache fills up in a certain way, the drive forgets about
> transactions including newly queued ones.  You should contact Seagate
> about getting the latest firmware.  In the mean time, you can disable
> the write cache on the drives with old firmware (the one with firmware
> rev 0006 should be okay) from the SCSI-Select menu.
Hi, sorry for the late reply.
I thought disableing the write-cache would help, and then it "crashed"...

The current setup seems stable though:
kernel-2.4.9, aic 6.2.3 (apt-get install kernel-patch-adaptec :) )
*No* highmem support.
Tagged queueing at 8.
Write cache enabled

These did not work:
kernel-2.4.9, aic 6.2.1
Highmem support
Tagged queueing at 8.
Write cache enabled

kernel-2.4.9, aic 6.2.1
Highmem support
Tagged queueing at 253
Write cache disabled


It is hard to test more things, since it takes a while before a disk is
being a pain.

Eh, of-course, seagate says they no nothing about any firmware release.
Nothing can be wrong with their disks. Only if I am absolutely sure what
firmware might work for me, I should go to my reseller...

Anybody has some seagate firmware?
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