Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 01:06:47 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI Hangs...possible to reset? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961031010559.15243G-100000@quagmire.ki.net> In-Reply-To: <199610310114.RAA15083@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > ...the question is, is there no way of issuing a RESET so that > >the deadlock causing the hang is cleared? > > Some device drivers are better then others. The aic7xxx driver, for > instance, will reset the bus if a timeout occurs and an abort message > is unsucessful in clearing the problem. The abort logic is in the > process of being moved to the generic SCSI layer so other drivers > can take advantage of it, but I can only update the drivers for > controllers I have documentation for, so this make take a little > time. > Cool, that sounds very encouraging...any chance one of those controllers happens to be the NCR PCI? :) Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org
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