Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 00:26:52 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: jreynold@primenet.com (John and Jennifer Reynolds), freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to tell if a quirk "worked"? Message-ID: <199909200626.AAA78694@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909192252100.43272-100000@semuta.feral.com> from Matthew Jacob at "Sep 19, 1999 10:54:26 pm"
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Matthew Jacob wrote... > > > I now see, much to my embarrassment, that I forgot to document a "FROZEN" > > > state- if the the driver thinks it has lost where things are on the tape, > > > it won't let you do anything but rewind, seek to end of tape, or unload > > > the tape. When any of these actions occur, normal tape operations consistent > > > with that state may resume. > > > > I should have also said I got a few of these in my syslog: > > > > (sa0:ahc0:0:2:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM command to clear this state. > > > > Tonight, I did "mt rewind" on a tape I was fooling with yesterday and got the > > following in messages: > > > > (sa0:ahc0:0:2:0): SCB 0x8 - timed out while idle, LASTPHASE == 0x1, SEQADDR == 0x8 > > (sa0:ahc0:0:2:0): Queuing a BDR SCB > > (sa0:ahc0:0:2:0): Bus Device Reset Message Sent > > (sa0:ahc0:0:2:0): no longer in timeout, status = > > > > anything of consequence? > > Take that one up with Justin Gibbs- his HBA driver.... Timed out while idle generally indicates that the command in question timed out. i.e. the timeout for the rewind may be too short for that drive. (Or it could be another command, if something else is done before the rewind.) Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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