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Date:      Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:48:28 -0700
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: chio trap with not-ready changer
Message-ID:  <20000229234828.A28504@panzer.kdm.org>
In-Reply-To: <200003010640.WAA03924@mass.cdrom.com>; from msmith@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 10:40:39PM -0800
References:  <20000229233615.A28297@panzer.kdm.org> <200003010640.WAA03924@mass.cdrom.com>

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On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 22:40:39 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> > 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).

What's confusing me about the problem is that cherror() is called with the
SF_RETRY_UA flag.  That's supposed to return ERESTART on any errors with a
unit attention sense key, regardless of the retry count.

So it should keep retrying unit attention errors indefinitely.  I say
indefinitely, but unit attenion conditions should generally be cleared once
they're returned once.

But that's evidently not happening in your case, and I don't know why.

Anyway, to answer your questions:
 - there is no delay between retries in this case
 - there are "device becoming ready" status return values, and we do check
   for that.

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@kdm.org


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