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Date:      Mon, 4 Nov 1996 23:14:10 -0500 (EST)
From:      Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>
To:        ponds!freefall.cdrom.com!freebsd-hackers
Subject:   Another round of aha2940 (or perhaps generic SCSI) lock ups..
Message-ID:  <199611050414.XAA00266@lakes.water.net>

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Ok -

 I've done everything Adaptec tech. support said to do.  I've
ensure proper termination; dropped the transfer times, disabled
synchronous & wide negotation on the older devices, disconnection
negotiation, etc...

 What this has done has let me reproduce the SCSI lock-up
more readily.

 Now, every time I write to the tape device (a Wangtek 5150ES QIC-150),
when I get to the end of the writing, and the tape begins to rewind;
*whamo* - my SCSI bus locks up....

The messages, of course, are not logged in /var/log/messages - because
nothing can be written out.

I've jotted them down - from my paper notes they are:

   ahc0: Issued Channel A Bus Reset #1.  n SCB's aborted
   sd0(ahc0:0:0) timed out in message out phase, SCSISGI==0xb4
   sd0(ahc0:0:0) asserted ATN - device reset in message buffer
   sd0(ahc0:0:0) timed out in message out phase, SCSISGI==0xa4

This just repeats until I reboot the machine.  I let it continue
for about 5 minutes.  The only variation was the number of SCBs aborted.

[Note, if I do a reset - the aha2940 is unable to probe the SCSI
 bus for devices.  I have to turn the machine off and back on.]

I note that "Vladimir P. Frolov" <pvp@fareast.rosprint.ru> has just
reported the same problem; with an Adaptec 7880.

I did not experience my problems until *after* I upgraded my kernel
to 2.1.5-STABLE.

	- Dave Rivers -



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