ERROR: Doorbell auf SunUltra 20 uner SLES8

[xunil321]

Hallo,

may I have some ideas concerning the ERROR messages during the
boot process of our SunUltra 20 under SLES8 SP3 with an attached Hitachi
SATA drive:
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RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 1245k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
libata version 0.71 loaded.
sata_nv version 0.05
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:07.0 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:08.0 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9F0 ctl 0xBF2 bmdma 0xD400 irq 21
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x970 ctl 0xB72 bmdma 0xD408 irq 21
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7fe9 84:4773 85:3469 86:3c01
87:4763 88:407f
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 488390625 sectors
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x977
ata2: thread exiting
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9E0 ctl 0xBE2 bmdma 0xC000 irq 20
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x960 ctl 0xB62 bmdma 0xC008 irq 20
ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x9E7
ata3: thread exiting
ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x967
ata4: thread exiting
scsi0 : sata_nv
scsi1 : sata_nv
scsi2 : sata_nv
scsi3 : sata_nv
Vendor: ATA Model: HITACHI HDS7225S Rev: 0.71
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 488390625 512-byte hdwr sectors (250056 MB)
Partition check:
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 >
Fusion MPT base driver 2.05.05+
Copyright (c) 1999-2002 LSI Logic Corporation
mptbase: Initiating ioc0 bringup

mptbase: ioc0: ERROR - Doorbell ACK timeout(4)!
mptbase: ioc0: ERROR - Doorbell ACK timeout(4)!

ioc0: 53C1030: Capabilities={Initiator}
mptbase: Initiating ioc1 bringup
ioc1: 53C1030: Capabilities={Initiator}
mptbase: 2 MPT adapters found, 2 installed.
Fusion MPT SCSI Host driver 2.05.05+
scsi4 : ioc0: LSI53C1030, FwRev=01032300h, Ports=1, MaxQ=222, IRQ=19
scsi5 : ioc1: LSI53C1030, FwRev=01032300h, Ports=1, MaxQ=222, IRQ=16
blk: queue f01e7418, I/O limit 4294967295Mb (mask 0xffffffffffffffff)
hda: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hda: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache

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Nevertheless the system is running without any problems but it would be
nice to know the meaning of these errors.

THX, Rainer B.

[devils casper]

is it a fresh installation? post the output of 'uname -a' command.
its a BUG in kernel 2.4.x.

[xunil321]

@devils_casper:
We are using Kernel 2.4.21-138.
From where do you know that this is a bug?

[devils casper]

check this Linux-PowerEdge Mailing list. i had two servers having 2.4.x kernel and was getting same error.
i upgraded all servers to Debian Stable now.