Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 10:25:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com (Justin T. Gibbs) Cc: johan@granlund.nu, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CAM and exabyte EXB-8200 problems Message-ID: <199809190825.KAA11817@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199809181922.NAA15474@narnia.plutotech.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at "Sep 18, 98 01:22:49 pm"
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As Justin T. Gibbs wrote... > In article <199809181605.SAA00314@phoenix.granlund.nu> you wrote: > > Hi > > > > I got a small problem (TM) after uppgrading to CAM, my tapestation is > > hanging on boot. This is an old Exabyte 8200. When looking at a boot -v > > it hangs when all devices EXCEPT the tapestation has been found. This is > > a fullblown SCSI hang with the busylamp on > > > > The exabyte is doing a lengthy recalibration on a SCSI reset. When looking > > on the output from a preCAM boot i got a couple of busy timeouts. > > SCSI_DELAY=30000 (30sec) > > > > Is appendig two boot -v outputs one precam (beetwen E-Day and C-Day) and > > one without the tape from today at 17:00 CEDT > > > > Any solutions? > > I need a bit more information. This is likely a bug in the handling of > the BUSY status code. A boot with -v with the tape drive hooked up > (I know it will hang...) would help a lot. Keep in mind that there are a zillion revisions of the 8200 firmware. Something that worked with driver X could well fail with driver Y. So, it could be CAM but don't rule out the 8200 Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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