Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 09:28:17 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AHA-2940U problem in -STABLE Message-ID: <19970429092817.18346@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <199704291538.JAA27224@pluto.plutotech.com>; from Justin T. Gibbs on Tue, Apr 29, 1997 at 10:37:15AM -0600 References: <19970429014944.36331@dragon.nuxi.com> <199704291538.JAA27224@pluto.plutotech.com>
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On Tue, Apr 29, 1997 at 10:37:15AM -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > >I'm having a little problem with my AHA-2940. I can no longer use my > >Exbyte 8505 8mm drive to back up my SCSI hard drive. Using a 2.2-STABLE > >kernel in single user mode from 4/24 I got: > > > >DUMP: 91.33% done, finished in 0:03 > >st0(ahc0:4:0): SCB 0x2 - timeed out while idle, LASTPHASE == 0x1, SCSISIGI == > >0x0 > >SEQADDR == 0x8 > > My guess is that you are using the rewindind device and that the rewind is Nope. The exact command was "dump 0udsf 54000 13000 /dev/nrst0 /files". > >And then the machine froze (not even a panic). > > This is bug #2. For some reason, the recovery code is botching it. Can > you try the attached patch and see if the recovery code behaves correctly? > Once I get the recovery code to work for you, you should be able to bump > up the timeout in scsi/st.c:st_rewind and make the problem completly go > away. Will try it. BTW, lastnight, I CVSup'ed src-sys and got a revision 1.81.2.25 of 1997/04/26. So I will obviously be patching agaist that. I'll make the new kernel now, and test the dump later today (trying to get an assignemnt done now (isn't school a pain? really gets in the way of FreeBSD hacking :-)))) -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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