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Date:      Sat, 28 Feb 1998 13:23:23 -0800
From:      Matthew Reimer <mreimer@vpop.net>
To:        Eugene Radchenko <genie@qsar.chem.msu.su>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Conclusion: Seagate Python firmware and hanging SCBs on 2940!
Message-ID:  <34F8804B.A0ABF203@vpop.net>
References:  <lists.freebsd.scsi.012801bd4459$3c7c5040$6330fa9e@org-qsar2.chem.msu.su>

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I've been having the same kind of trouble for months with the same
configuration. My workaround is to give the tape drive its own
controller so that at least the OS won't die when the tape drive freaks
out the SCSI bus. I still the same kind of errors, but at least  the
machine doesn't die.

Matt

Eugene Radchenko wrote:
> 
> I am having a terrible (and probably similar) problem with dying dump on the
> HP C1533A DDS-2 drive and Adaptec2940 and FreeBSD 2.2.2. See log below,
> after that it just almost-hangs (IP and presumably other parts of kernel
> work, but nothing more) till RESET.
> It used to happen every several months but recently I had this during 2
> unattended backups in a row (separated by 3 days).
> What I could  do about this? Will upgrade to 2.2.5 help? (though back in
> 2.1.0 only dump sometimes crashed but not the system as a whole *-((   )

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