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Date:      Fri, 10 Aug 2001 19:10:11 -0500
From:      Jim Bryant <kc5vdj@yahoo.com>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SCSI timeout problems going from May23 to July13 kernel
Message-ID:  <3B7477E3.81FC089C@yahoo.com>
References:  <20010716092359.F96667-100000@wonky.feral.com>

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Matt, has any progress been made on EOT/EOM detection yet?  I haven't tested this recently.

Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> Timeouts were lengthened, not shortened recently. This looks like it timed out
> on the test read in samount...... that's a four (4) minute timeout.
> 
> The tape driver is very broken in a lot of ways.
> 
> Use the scsi_sa.c that's on my web page on freebsd.org
> 
>         (http://people.freebsd.org/~mjacob/scsi_sa.c)
> 
> with a CAMDEBUG kernel that has camcontrol -Ic N:0:0 (you'll have to supply
> the N for the ordinal bus number the tape is on) and ship me the output.
> 
> -matt
> 
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> 
> > >Jul 16 09:31:20 backup2 /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:0:0): SCB 0x9 - timed out
> > >while idle, SEQADDR == 0x8
> >
> > ...
> >
> > >Jul 16 09:31:20 backup2 /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:0:0): Queuing a BDR SCB
> > >Jul 16 09:31:20 backup2 /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:0:0): Bus Device Reset Message
> > >Sent
> > >Jul 16 09:31:20 backup2 /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:0:0): no longer in timeout,
> > >status = 34b
> > >Jul 16 09:31:20 backup2 /kernel: ahc0: Bus Device Reset on A:0. 1 SCBs aborted
> > >Jul 16 09:31:21 backup2 /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:0:0): unable to rewind after
> > >test read
> >
> > I wonder if the timeouts are now too short for your tape drive?  Matt
> > may have more ideas.

jim
-- 
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