From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Attaching a firewire device to the firewire port on my sb audigy 2zs causes scsi errors on my lsi 21320 card. Since I'm using scsi hard drives this causes the system to lock up for up to a minute while the scsi bus is reset. The problems seem to arise randomly. The log messages that appear follow: Dec 20 10:09:30 hepcat kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: >> Attempting task abort! (sc=106cc9c0) Dec 20 10:09:32 hepcat kernel: mptbase: Initiating ioc0 recovery Dec 20 10:09:35 hepcat kernel: mptbase: ioc0: ERROR - Doorbell INT timeout (count=4999), IntStatus=80000000! Dec 20 10:09:35 hepcat kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: Issue of TaskMgmt failed! Dec 20 10:09:35 hepcat kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: WARNING - Error issuing abort task! (sc=106cc9c0) Dec 20 10:09:35 hepcat kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: >> Attempting bus reset! (sc=106cc9c0) This may be related to bugs 126162, 138894, and 140356 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3smp How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: Running the system with the firewire device causes the errors to appear after a while. Additional info:
Actually, the bug is quite a bit worse than I thought. The resets somehow also cause a SMART logical failure to be logged to the scsi hard drives on the channel. So if the devices are left running long enough, the drives will report a SMART failure warning. This is with atlas 10K III drives, I'm not sure if this will appear with other scsi hard drives.
I think this may be a hardware. One of the scsi channels and the firewire device share an irq and I've managed to get errors in winxp when the firewire device is running. Given the age of the motherboard (440BX smp system), I think it probably didn't fully meet some spec and this is a result of that.
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You can close this bug. The problem was a failing scsi drive on one of the scsi channels raising errors and causing bus resets. Replacing the hard drive fixed the problem.