From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 6 14:13:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C24937B401; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 14:13:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aslan.scsiguy.com (mail.scsiguy.com [63.229.232.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BC4043F75; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 14:13:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gibbs@scsiguy.com) Received: from aslan.scsiguy.com (aslan.scsiguy.com [63.229.232.106]) by aslan.scsiguy.com (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h76LCqEU071183; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 15:12:52 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from gibbs@scsiguy.com) Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 15:12:52 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" To: Don Bowman , "'freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org'" , "'aic7xxx@freebsd.org'" Message-ID: <1791010000.1060204372@aslan.scsiguy.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.3 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: RE: Ongoing U320 AIC7902 Seagate ST318453LW issues, SCB timed out X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 21:13:32 -0000 >> As far as I can tell, the drive is "sitting" on the commands, >> and the controller is waiting for them to be completed. So >> the fault is in the drive, not the controller, the driver, or >> the SCSI layer. > > Is there the concept of an ill-formed command that might > cause this? An ill-formed command should result in the drive responding with a status packet telling us so. No such status has been returned. > Could the timeout just be too short? The timeout is currently set to 60 seconds... a veritable eternity. -- Justin