Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 13 Jul 1995 09:40:36 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net>
To:        mpp@legarto.minn.net (Mike Pritchard)
Cc:        terry@cs.weber.edu, tom@misery.sdf.com, karl@Mcs.Net, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SCSI disk wedge
Message-ID:  <199507131440.JAA01619@Jupiter.mcs.net>
In-Reply-To: <199507130719.CAA02184@mpp> from "Mike Pritchard" at Jul 13, 95 02:19:02 am

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> 
> > > The 1742 driver has been around for a long time and is very similar to 
> > > the driver in NetBSD.  However, the 2742/2842/2942 driver is quite 
> > > recent.  It is _very_ odd that you have problems with both adapters.
> > 
> > Clearly, it is an issue of tagged command queuing, very large transfers,
> > bus on time, or one of the many issues in the shared SCSI, VM, block I/O,
> > and/or user space code above them all, only the last of which is shared
> > with BSDI (and therefore possible to rule out).
> > 					Terry Lambert
> > 					terry@cs.weber.edu
> 
> Just to toss my $0.02 in, I don't think I would blame any tagged
> queuing problems on the 27/28/2942 driver anymore.  You have
> to explicitly enable that via a #define right now.  I've also
> been running for around 4 - 6 weeks with tagged queuing enabled 
> using one of the "problem" drives with absolutely no problems.
> 
> Now if the guy enabled it and was having problems.......
> -- 
> Mike Pritchard
> mpp@legarto.minn.net
> "Go that way.  Really fast.  If something gets in your way, turn"

I had it *off* and had the problem, turned it on in an attempt to see if
that made it "go away", and discovered that while it make the problem less
frequent, it did *NOT* solve it.

--
--
Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity
Modem: [+1 312 248-0900]     | (shell, PPP, SLIP, leased) in Chicagoland
Voice: [+1 312 248-8649]     | 7 Chicagoland POPs, ISDN, 28.8, much more
Fax: [+1 312 248-9865]       | Email to "info@mcs.net" WWW: http://www.mcs.net
ISDN - Get it here TODAY!    | Home of Chicago's only FULL AP Clarinet feed!



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199507131440.JAA01619>