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Date:      Sun, 10 Mar 1996 19:53:01 +0100
From:      Daniel Rock <rock@wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NCR disk controller, hp disk
Message-ID:  <3143250D.3A88@wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de>
References:  <199603101457.AA04448@Sisyphos>

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Stefan Esser wrote:
> 
> On Mar 8, 16:39, Jim Lowe wrote:
> } I have an NCR 825 PCI disk controller.  I just attached a second disk
> } to the controller and am trying to access it.  The second disk works
> } just fine under dos, but not freebsd-current.  I am getting the following
> } errors:
> }
> } sd1(ncr0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND asc:4e,0 Overlapped commands attempted
> } , retries:4
> } sd1(ncr0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND asc:4e,0 Overlapped commands attempted
> } , retries:3
> } sd1(ncr0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND asc:4e,0 Overlapped commands attempted
> } , retries:2
> } sd1(ncr0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND asc:4e,0 Overlapped commands attempted
> } , retries:1
> } sd1(ncr0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND asc:4e,0 Overlapped commands attempted
> } , FAILURE
> } sd1: error reading primary partition table reading fsbn 0 (sd1 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 s
> } n 0)
> 
> This particular HP drive (the C3724S) is known
> to cause problems with tagged commands. Please
> rebuild your kernel with
> 
> options "SCSI_NCR_DFLT_TAGS=0"
> 
> and everything will be fine again.
> 
> You can reenable tags for the first drive using
> 
> # ncrcontrol -s tags=0 -s tags=4
> 
> I'd be really interested to understand what is
> going wrong here, since this is the only drive
> known to cause that kind of problem. The driver
> sends the command and the drive its reply just
> fine, but this reply indicates that the drive
> doesn't accept a tagged command, though it did
> inidcate support for this feature before.

Not only FreeBSD has problems with HP drives. I had to
disable tagged-command-queueing on a SparcServer 600,
because the HP drive (a C3325A) showed up exactly the same
problems (the SCSI HBA is a FAS236).

Daniel



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