From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Nov 13 14:27:25 1995 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA03477 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 14:27:25 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA03470 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 14:27:22 -0800 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA25632; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 14:22:21 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199511132222.OAA25632@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: kern/820: scsi tape problems To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 14:22:20 -0800 (PST) Cc: mark@linus.demon.co.uk, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511132144.WAA27597@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Nov 13, 95 10:44:43 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 918 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Mark, can you show the traces again? I missed them. BTW what versions of everything? > > As Mark Valentine wrote: > > > > > > Nov 12 20:18:21 linus /kernel: st0(aha0:4:0): timed out > > > > > > This looks like a subsequent problem in the driver (since your tape > > > drive did lengthy attempts to recover from the above error). > > > > Sorry if it wasn't clear in my original report, but this happens later on > > the tape (the previous error didn't show up at all on subsequent attempts > > - although there were still retries - there were complete power cycles in > > the interim). Would the driver even be aware of retries which eventually > > succeed? > > This rather looks like a driver bug. > > What adapter are you using? > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) >