From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 29 01:37:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA03800 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 01:37:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tyree.iii.co.uk (tyree.iii.co.uk [195.89.149.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA03771; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 01:37:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@iii.co.uk) From: nik@iii.co.uk Received: from carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (carrig.strand.iii.co.uk [192.168.7.25]) by tyree.iii.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA27562; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:36:52 +0100 (BST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA05111; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:36:31 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <19980629093631.60284@iii.co.uk> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:36:31 +0100 To: Stefan Esser Cc: Doug Russell , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make world failures (ncr wierdness?) References: <19980627151834.05015@mi.uni-koeln.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85e In-Reply-To: <19980627151834.05015@mi.uni-koeln.de>; from Stefan Esser on Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 03:18:34PM +0200 Organization: interactive investor Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ cc'd to -scsi ] On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 03:18:34PM +0200, Stefan Esser wrote: > > Jun 26 10:19:46 doug /kernel: assertion "cp" failed: file "../../pci/ncr.c", line 6191 > > Jun 26 10:19:46 doug /kernel: sd0(ncr0:6:0): COMMAND FAILED (4 28) @f05a9800. > > This is your drive complaining about too many simultanous commands. > Some drives support varying numbers of tags depending on parameters > we have no control over, some have firmware bugs and can't even deal > with 2 tagged commands at times. IIRC, then the LXY4 revision of the > Quantum Atlas II firmware is known to cause such problems. You may > want to upgrade to a later revision (available from the Quantum FTP > server at ftp://ftp.qntm.com/pub/support/Firmware). The upgrade can > be performed from a DOS floppy with ASPI drivers for SDMS (came with > your NCR card). Not having easy access to a machine running DOS, this is a bit tricky for me to do. Would anyone be kind enough to build a floppy image with the right files on and make it available for FTP? N -- Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message