SCSI Parity Errors (sym53c8xx_2)

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Hello,

I cant get the sym53c8xx_2 driver to work. The disks are connected via a SCA interface and verified working, they also show up in BIOS (compaq smartstart bios) and so does the on-board scsi controller they are connected via. The drives also gets spun up by the POST. The cables are also changed and verified working. (one twoend SCSI cable from the SCA interface to the motherboards SCSI controller).

I have read diffrent forums and googled about problems with the sym53c8xx_2 driver and noticed its a buggy driver in 2.6.11 so I tried diffrent kernels and even dragonflybsd livecd. All gives me parity error, but all uses the same driver, just diffrent versions.

I also heard ncr53c8xx was a better sym driver and I would have tried it, but I cant get it to show up in menuconfig (although the driver sources seems to exists in my kernel tree). And the reason sym1 wont get an IRQ below is because I disabled it for testing purposes if anyone wonders, I also tried to connect the drivers to this port, but the system does not like that at all.

All help much appriciated!

Hardware:
Compaq Proliant 1850R
2x400Mhz PII (smp)
256Mb ECC RAM
3x9,1Gb SCA HotPlug SCSI (connected to one of the two internal scsi controllers, (sym0))
2x9,1Gb Internal SCSI (connected to an external SmartRaid-221)

Software:
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Kernel 2.6.11-hardened-r1

Logs:

dmesg
Linux version 2.6.11-hardened-r1 (root@rb) (gcc version 3.3.5-20050130 (Gentoo Hardened Linux 3.3.5.20050130-r1, ssp-3.3.5.20050130-1, pie-8.7.7.1)) #23 Thu Apr 21 21:59:25 CEST 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fffc000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000fffc000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
255MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 65532
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 61436 pages, LIFO batch:14
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI not present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 COMPAQ ) @ 0x000f4fd0
>>> ERROR: Invalid checksum
Allocating PCI resources starting at 10000000 (gap: 10000000:eec00000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/ida/c0d0p1
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c03d7000 soft=c03d6000
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 16384 bytes)
Detected 398.879 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 255724k/262128k available (2078k kernel code, 5780k reserved, 373k data, 148k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 786.43 BogoMIPS (lpj=393216)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0183f3ff 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0084, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Device 0000:00:00.0 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 0000:00:14.0 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 0000:00:14.1 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 0000:00:14.2 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 0000:00:14.3 not found by BIOS
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1114154602.149:0): initialized
Initializing Cryptographic API
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 6 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.6.0)
cpqarray: Device 0xae10 has been found at bus 1 dev 0 func 0
cpqarray: Finding drives on ida0 (Smart Array 221)
cpqarray ida/c0d0: blksz=512 nr_blks=17764320
ida/c0d0: p1 p2
ThunderLAN driver v1.15
TLAN: eth0 irq=11, io=2800, Compaq Netelligent Integrated 10/100 TX UTP, Rev. 16
TLAN: 1 device installed, PCI: 1 EISA: 0
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf100-0xf107, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: CD-224E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
hda: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
sym0: <875> rev 0x14 at pci 0000:00:06.0 irq 12
sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking
sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
scsi0 : sym-2.1.18i
sym0:0: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s ST (50.0 ns, offset 15)
sym0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=1 DBC=11000000 SBCL=29
sym0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=1 DBC=1100000e SBCL=ae
sym0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=1 DBC=11000000 SBCL=29
sym0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=1 DBC=1100000e SBCL=ae
sym0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=1 DBC=11000000 SBCL=29
sym0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=1 DBC=1100000e SBCL=ae
sym0:1: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s ST (50.0 ns, offset 15)
sym0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=1 DBC=11000000 SBCL=29
sym0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=1 DBC=1100000e SBCL=ae
sym0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=1 DBC=11000000 SBCL=29
sym0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=1 DBC=1100000e SBCL=ae
sym0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=1 DBC=11000000 SBCL=29
sym0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=1 DBC=1100000e SBCL=ae
sym0:2: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s ST (50.0 ns, offset 15)
sym0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=1 DBC=11000000 SBCL=29
sym0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=1 DBC=1100000e SBCL=ae
sym0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=1 DBC=11000000 SBCL=29
sym0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=1 DBC=1100000e SBCL=ae
sym0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=1 DBC=11000000 SBCL=29
sym0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=1 DBC=1100000e SBCL=ae
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:06.1 (0000 -> 0003)
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 0000:00:06.1. Please try using pci=biosirq.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:06.1 to 64
sym1: <875> rev 0x14 at pci 0000:00:06.1 irq 0
sym1: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking
sym1: request irq 0 failure
sym1: giving up ...
Fusion MPT base driver 3.01.18
Copyright (c) 1999-2004 LSI Logic Corporation
Fusion MPT SCSI Host driver 3.01.18
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
8regs : 728.000 MB/sec
8regs_prefetch: 612.000 MB/sec
32regs : 368.000 MB/sec
32regs_prefetch: 348.000 MB/sec
pII_mmx : 992.000 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 1032.000 MB/sec
raid5: using function: p5_mmx (1032.000 MB/sec)
md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ipt_recent v0.3.1: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>. http://snowman.net/projects/ipt_recent/
arp_tables: (C) 2002 David S. Miller
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 148k freed
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Adding 473908k swap on /dev/ida/c0d0p2. Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on ida/c0d0p1, internal journal
grsec: time set by /sbin/hwclock[hwclock:28995] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0, parent /sbin/rc[rc:403] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0
TLAN: eth0: Starting autonegotiation.
process `named' is using obsolete setsockopt SO_BSDCOMPAT
TLAN: eth0: Autonegotiation complete.
TLAN: eth0: Link active

lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (AGP disabled) (rev 02)
0000:00:06.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c875 (rev 14)
0000:00:06.1 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c875 (rev 14)
0000:00:07.0 Network controller: Compaq Computer Corporation Netelligent Integrated 10/100 TX UTP (rev 10)
0000:00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC 215IIC [Mach64 GT IIC] (rev 7a)
0000:00:09.0 System peripheral: Compaq Computer Corporation Advanced System Management Controller
0000:00:10.0 PCI bridge: IBM IBM27-82351 (rev 07)
0000:00:14.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
0000:00:14.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:14.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:14.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Compaq Computer Corporation Smart-2/P RAID Controller (rev 04)