From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 29 09:28:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA24130 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 09:28:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.ucdavis.edu [128.120.175.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA24116 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 09:28:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (reqf-013.ucdavis.edu [128.120.253.133]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA17405; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 08:41:47 GMT Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id QAA02242; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 16:28:17 GMT Message-ID: <19970429092817.18346@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 09:28:17 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AHA-2940U problem in -STABLE References: <19970429014944.36331@dragon.nuxi.com> <199704291538.JAA27224@pluto.plutotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <199704291538.JAA27224@pluto.plutotech.com>; from Justin T. Gibbs on Tue, Apr 29, 1997 at 10:37:15AM -0600 X-Warning: Mutt Bites! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE Organization: The NUXI *BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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)