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Date:      Tue, 29 Feb 2000 22:40:39 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
Cc:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: chio trap with not-ready changer 
Message-ID:  <200003010640.WAA03924@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:36:15 MST." <20000229233615.A28297@panzer.kdm.org> 

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> On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 22:21:39 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> > > Okay, I think I know why the panic is happening at least.  I don't
> > > understand why you're getting the unit attention error, though, since we
> > > generally retry unit attention errors unconditionally.
> > > 
> > > Try the attached patch and see if it fixes things up.  Once you've got the
> > > panic fixed, we can attempt to solve the unit attention problem.
> > 
> > Ok, it's not panicking anymore:
> > 
> > pass0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
> > pass0: <SPECTRA STL-8000 1.94> Removable Changer SCSI-2 device
> > pass0: Serial Number 3
> > pass0: 3.300MB/s transfers
> > ...
> > (ch0:ahc0:0:4:0): MODE SENSE(06). CDB: 1a 0 1d 0 20 0
> > (ch0:ahc0:0:4:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:29,0
> > (ch0:ahc0:0:4:0): Power on, reset, or bus device reset occurred
> > (ch0:ahc0:0:4:0): fatal error, failed to attach to device
> > (ch0:ahc0:0:4:0): lost device
> > (ch0:ahc0:0:4:0): removing device entry
> > 
> > Now what?  8)
> 
> Well, I still can't figure out how you're getting a failure from a unit
> attention error.  I suppose the next thing to try is to bump the retry
> count.  The attached patch is the same as before, but with the retry count
> set to 3 instead of 1.

Ah.  I think I understand this.  How long is the delay between retries?  
Is there anyway to get a "device becoming ready" status?  I'd hazard a 
guess that you're going to get the above error repeated until the changer 
has finished resetting (may be several minutes).

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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