Date: Thu, 04 Jan 96 18:10:53 PST From: Ben Jackson <bjj@sequent.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: buggy 2940 driver? Message-ID: <199601050210.SAA07591@eng4.sequent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jan 96 17:25:56 PST." <199601050125.RAA08712@freefall.freebsd.org>
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In message <199601050125.RAA08712@freefall.freebsd.org> , you wrote: > >I have a 2940 connected to (among other things) a QUPD1800S. During > >extended periods of heavy read activity (ie backups) the device and/or > >card will eventually hang, [...] > > Well, as the author of the driver, what can I say? I do the best > that I can in the amount of time that I have. [...] Justin, Please don't get the wrong idea! I appreciate your work on the driver-- and I'm sure Amancio does too. I was just detailing my experience to correlate with Amancio's report. I have tried several driver revisions (because I was way downrev on FreeBSD when I got the card) and the results are largely unchanged over several driver versions. I don't know if it's a problem with the drive, the card, the driver, or the OS's use of the driver. I would pursue it, but I have no device driver experience. I'm open to suggestions, requests for experiments and beta testing. > I do hope that you will at least try the revision > that was just committed to the tree. I will do that when I get a chance (my birthday is tommorow, so I'll be busy). My repeat-by is just 'dump ...', which usually hangs a few minutes after it starts dumping regular files. Would any ouput (trace, crash dump, etc) be useful? Does anyone have a similar (SCSI2 ~2G drive) on a 2940 that has had similar experiences? --Ben
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