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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 13:48:26 -0700 From: John Gray <johng@InterSAN.net> Subject: Re: Openserver 5.0.? Hangs at F slhainit References: <3B5DD8D3.3E0544EF@systnet.com> rick wrote: > > Hello all! I don't have alot if info to go on from this user, but here > it goes. They lost power to the server and now when it boots it hangs > at F slhainit. The only SCSI device in the machine is a tape drive. > I have tried defbootstr scsi.noscan at the boot prompt to no avail. > Any help would be appreciated! > > Thanks. > > -- > Rick Walsh > rickw@systnet.com This is telling you that the slha (symbios HBA driver) is running the init function. If this isn't required for boot then type "defbootstr disable=slha" without the " and see what this does for you. If you plan to fix this with another LSI HBA of the same type put this in the /etc/default/boot file until you do. If not turn the driver off and relink the kernel. The boostring will tell the kernel to ingore the init function for that driver or skip it on kernel initialization.
hope this helps. -john
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Thu Aug 18 17:45:54 2005: 987 BrianKWhite
I'm having the same problem on a new 5.0.7+MP3 box.
I have more details to offer though.
First, the controller is needed,
and the only thing plugged into it is a tape drive. (VXA-2)
and the hang only happens when there is a tape in the drive during boot.
The box originally had slha driver 4.11.00 (culled from Space.c)
and rebooted fine several times with a tape in the drive. Maybe a dozen.
Then I installed 4.11.03 from the sco ftp site and started having the problem.
I had written a tape before this using star and grabbing the whole /, so I restored driver.o and space.c from the tape, verified the differences in file size, dates, and the version number written in space.c, relinked and rebooted and still had the problem.
At all times the tape drive worked, and works, normally, if I avoid the boot hang by not having a tape in the drive during bootup. That is, before I updated the driver, after the update, and after manually reverting, and after finally reapplying 4.11.03 (since reverting didn't help)
Maybe I didn't do enough stuff to revert the driver fully but it doesn't look like there are any more files that are different. The btld floppy has very few files in total so it's easy to tell. Maybe the problem has nothing to do with the driver version and it just happened to work a dozen times for some other reason.
I have yet to check that the card has the latest firmware but I beleive it does. (several reasons)
One dirty little secret that might turn out to show I shot myself in the foot.
The customer is replacing an existing 5.0.5 box that had SMP. The new box doesn't have 2 cpu's but it does have a p4 with HT, which I learned the hard way to disable in the bios a few years ago. Well I just couldn't bear to waste that smp license and the box will be a glorified backup so I felt I could afford to experiment a little and so I installed SMP and enabled HT.
Fri Aug 19 15:44:41 2005: 991 rbailin
Using an SMP license on 5.0.7 doesn't enable HT on a Pentium 4. You need to install UP3, which enables HT and doesn't require an additional SMP license. However, UP3 requires the SCO Update license to be installed.
--Bob
Fri Aug 19 15:52:44 2005: 992 rbailin
Oh, one more thing: You might want to try editing
/etc/conf/pack.d/slha/space.c and changing the line
int drvr_InitializationResetsBus = 1;
to ... = 0;
Whenever I reboot my system with a tape in the DDS
drive, (using an Adaptec controller), the drive
resets itself twice: first when the SCSI BIOS
initializes, and second when the blad driver
initializes. This bus reset may be causing
timing issues for the driver, because the drive
is not ready until it finishes resetting.
--Bob
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