Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 17:50:03 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI / CAM error or warning output? Message-ID: <3628CABB.53B52FF1@tdx.co.uk> References: <199810171541.JAA11982@narnia.plutotech.com>
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"Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: > > In article <36287AC1.3F0C0D9C@tdx.co.uk> you wrote: > > ahc2 is a 2940UW, with 3 x Quantum drives on it. > > Funny. They look very much like Seagate drives to me. Ugh... Sorry, Quantum on the brain... ;-) > This is a nice Adaptec cable *without* a built in terminator, right? Yes... ;-) > > This happens when the drives are 'busy' (but not totally thrashed)... > > Does it only happen before the tag count is reduced, or does it happen > regardless of how man, "tagged openings now X" messages you see for the > offending target? Hmmm... Looking through the vast amounts of console output I've captured, it appears to happen any time - sometimes theres "tagged openings now XX" messages, other times theres not... (i.e. the first thing that appears on the console is "ahc2:A:10: no active SCB for reconnecting target - issuing BUS DEVICE RESET" > It looks like, at least for this particular rev of the firmware on these > drives, the drives continue to take in transactions above and beyond > their internal tag limit, hang up probably blocking on a resource shortage, > then do not properly clean up all pending transactions when we whap them > with a Bus Device Reset Message. The Adaptec driver then starts seeing > transactions returned by the device that are no longer pending (they should > have been killed by the BDR) and complains. > > You should look to see if there is later firmware available for this > drive. Ok, I am doing now... Thanks for the info... Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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