From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 17 10:30:52 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA12239 for current-outgoing; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 10:30:52 -0700 Received: from server.netcraft.co.uk (server.netcraft.co.uk [194.72.238.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA12229 ; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 10:30:50 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by server.netcraft.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA01309; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 18:30:04 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199507171730.SAA01309@server.netcraft.co.uk> Subject: Re: scsi problems To: dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 18:30:03 +0100 (BST) Cc: paul@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199507171712.NAA11366@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Jul 17, 95 01:12:58 pm Reply-to: paul@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1008 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Peter Dufault who said > > > Now the real problem: > > > > I can't use any tape devices (a HP DAT mainly), if I try to write to > > it I get (I don't think it's specific to writes though) > > > > sd0(aha0:0:0): timed out > > adapter not taking commands.. frozen?! > > Debugger("aha1542") > > Do you have any problems with tape transfers before this happens? It writes to the tape for a while (not long) and then hangs. > This is what happens when the bus jams - the adaptec driver > tries to abort the transaction (apparently the disk transaction in > this case), and when it times out again it finds that the mailbox still > has the ABORT command in it. At that point it assumes all is lost, > and panics. > > Is the tape the only external device or anything else unusual? Everything is external. -- Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.freebsd.org/~paul Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1222 457651 (home)