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Date:      Sun, 29 Oct 1995 19:18:26 +0100 (MET)
From:      Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de>
To:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: -stable: dump hangs system when using AHC_TAGENABLE (2940 tagged cmdq) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.951029191242.4126A-100000@knobel.gun.de>
In-Reply-To: <199510291726.JAA02100@aslan.cdrom.com>

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Hi Justin !

> >Hi !
> >
> >I'm running current FreeBSD stable. When trying to make a system
> >dump, the machine hangs without reporting an error.
> >
> >It turned out, that you can make a backup using tar when
> >tagged command queueing is enabled, but not the dump(8)
> >utility.
> >
> >For your information ...
> 
> Was there any console output when it hung?  

No, I was one time in single user mode the other one in multi user
mode. When starting dump, it simply hangs the system without printing
a message. /var/log/messages doesn't give a hint.

> What kind of disk are you using?

AHA 2940, Quantum Grand Prix 7200U/min at 10 MB/synchr.

Here a part of the boot messages.

Oct 29 11:36:55 knobel /kernel: Probing for devices on the PCI bus:
Oct 29 11:36:55 knobel /kernel: chip0 <Intel 82437 (Triton)> rev 2 on pci0:0
Oct 29 11:36:55 knobel /kernel: chip1 <Intel 82371 (Triton)> rev 2 on pci0:7
Oct 29 11:36:55 knobel /kernel: vga0 <VGA-compatible display device> rev 0 int a
 irq 12 on pci0:10
Oct 29 11:36:55 knobel /kernel: ahc0 <Adaptec 2940 SCSI host adapter> rev 3 int
a irq 11 on pci0:12
Oct 29 11:36:55 knobel /kernel: ahc0: 2940 Single Channel, SCSI Id=7, aic7870, 1
6 SCBs
Oct 29 11:36:55 knobel /kernel: (ahc0:0:0): "QUANTUM XP34301 1051" type 0 fixed
SCSI 2
Oct 29 11:36:55 knobel /kernel: sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 4106MB (8410200 512
 byte sectors)
Oct 29 11:36:55 knobel /kernel: sd0(ahc0:0:0): with 4076 cyls, 20 heads, and an
average 103 sectors/track
Oct 29 11:36:55 knobel /kernel: (ahc0:6:0): "TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-3601TA 0725" type
 5 removable SCSI 2
Oct 29 11:36:56 knobel /kernel: cd0(ahc0:6:0): CD-ROM cd present.[244095 x 2048
byte records]
Oct 29 11:36:55 knobel /kernel: Probing for devices on the PCI bus:
Oct 29 11:36:55 knobel /kernel: chip0 <Intel 82437 (Triton)> rev 2 on pci0:0
Oct 29 11:36:55 knobel /kernel: chip1 <Intel 82371 (Triton)> rev 2 on pci0:7
Oct 29 11:36:55 knobel /kernel: vga0 <VGA-compatible display device> rev 0 int a
 irq 12 on pci0:10
Oct 29 11:36:55 knobel /kernel: ahc0 <Adaptec 2940 SCSI host adapter> rev 3 int
a irq 11 on pci0:12
Oct 29 11:36:55 knobel /kernel: ahc0: 2940 Single Channel, SCSI Id=7, aic7870, 1
6 SCBs
Oct 29 11:36:55 knobel /kernel: (ahc0:0:0): "QUANTUM XP34301 1051" type 0 fixed
SCSI 2
Oct 29 11:36:55 knobel /kernel: sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 4106MB (8410200 512
 byte sectors)
Oct 29 11:36:55 knobel /kernel: sd0(ahc0:0:0): with 4076 cyls, 20 heads, and an
average 103 sectors/track
Oct 29 11:36:55 knobel /kernel: (ahc0:6:0): "TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-3601TA 0725" type
 5 removable SCSI 2
Oct 29 11:36:56 knobel /kernel: cd0(ahc0:6:0): CD-ROM cd present.[244095 x 2048
byte records]

> Is it narrow or wide?  Tagged queuing should work for all types of
> I/O...  I guess I'll have to go wade through dump.

It's a narrow one. If you do so, could you take a short look on
my dump patches, I wrote to this mailinglist ? Would be fine, if
you would accept them ...

Thanks

	Andreas ///

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