[eepro100] EEpro100, Red Hat 7.1, wait_for_cmd_done timeout errors

[Jim Hribnak]

I changed to the newer Scyld on Friday Jan 3rd about 5pm.. all as been fine
until last nite 8pm when I get paged and had to have the server rebooted
because I had the exact same errors as below.

Here is some info

pci-scan.c:v1.11 8/31/2002  Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
http://www.scyld.com/linux/drivers.html
eepro100.c:v1.26 11/17/2002 Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html

Jan  8 20:12:50 corusent kernel: eth0: Restarting the chip...
Jan  8 20:12:50 corusent kernel: Command 0070 was not accepted after 20001
polls!  Current status 01700000.
Jan  8 20:12:55 corusent kernel: eth1: Transmit timed out: status 0000  0010
at 79848671/79848749 commands 0001a000 0001a000 0001a000.

Jan  8 20:12:55 corusent kernel: eth1: Restarting the chip...
Jan  8 20:12:55 corusent kernel: Command 0070 was not accepted after 20001
polls!  Current status 01700000.
Jan  8 20:12:58 corusent kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0000  0010
at 2179912/2179979 commands 0001a000 0001a000 4001a000.


Jan  8 20:12:58 corusent kernel: eth0: Restarting the chip...
Jan  8 20:12:58 corusent kernel: Command 0070 was not accepted after 20001
polls!  Current status 01700000.
Jan  8 20:13:03 corusent kernel: eth1: Transmit timed out: status 0000  0010
at 79848671/79848750 commands 0001a000 0001a000 0001a000.





----- Original Message -----
From: "Brett Thorson" <bthorson@foretec.com>
To: "Donald Becker" <becker@scyld.com>
Cc: <eepro100@scyld.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [eepro100] EEpro100, Red Hat 7.1, wait_for_cmd_done timeout
errors


> Ok, I did all of this, but now I am having a new problem
>
> I did the netdrivers install that you suggested and changed the.  It was
running real good for a while.
> However it appears to degrade over time.
>
> Some weird messages in /var/log/messages about some command not being
> accepted.
>
> --
> Jan  8 11:56:01 ran kernel: Command 0070 was not accepted after 20001
> polls!  Current status 01700000.
> Jan  8 11:56:01 ran kernel: Command 10 was not immediately accepted, 10001
> ticks!
> Jan  8 11:56:01 ran kernel: Command 90 was not immediately accepted, 10001
> ticks!
> Jan  8 11:56:01 ran last message repeated 3 times
> Jan  8 11:56:03 ran kernel: Command 80 was not immediately accepted, 10001
> ticks!
> Jan  8 11:56:04 ran kernel: Command 80 was not immediately accepted, 10001
> ticks!
> --
>
> Don't know if this is related to the ethernet drivers or not although some
> of the eepro100 archives show this as a problem.  But that was back in
> October 2001.
>
> Pings are currently running at around 400 ms, now 100 ms.  Longer than
> after I rebooted the machine.
>
>
> Any more ideas, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> --Brett
>
>
> On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Donald Becker wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Brett Thorson wrote:
> > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Donald Becker wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Brett Thorson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > This bug hit us pretty hard too.  I've looked around, and haven't
seen
> > > > > anywhere that points to a direct solution.
> > > >
> > > > > So either there isn't one, or I just haven't found it yet.
> > > >
> > > > Have your tried the driver from scyld yet?
> > > >
> > > I guess I am a little confused.  Confused enough to drive into the
office
> > > at 2am to make sure I wasn't going crazy.
> > >
> > > I just looked in my logs, and I am using the scyld driver.
> > >
> > > kernel: eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker
> > > http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
> >
> > This is a modified driver that split from my development.  There are
> > usually several additional lines that say "modified by ..."
> >
> > > So are you recomending that I take this file:
> > > ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/eepro100.c
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > and follow these directions
> > > http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html#single
> >
> > It's easier to do:
> >
> > mkdir /tmp/netdrivers/
> > cd /tmp/netdrivers/
> > ncftpget ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdrivers.tgz
> > tar xfvz netdrivers.tgz
> > make
> > make install
> >
> >
> > --
> > Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
> > Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com
> > 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Scyld Beowulf cluster system
> > Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993
> >
> >
>
>
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