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Date:      Fri, 4 Aug 2000 12:38:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        marius@soylent-green.org
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: telling CAM to never timeout a transaction
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10008041238240.76103-100000@beppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000804213657.A87057@alchemy.grabstein.net>

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Fix the da driver to have an infinite timeout


On Fri, 4 Aug 2000 marius@soylent-green.org wrote:

> hi
> 
> could anyone tell me the parameter to make CAM never timeout a transaction ?
> i need it to get rid of a problem with a dpt raid controller:
> 
> Aug  4 13:16:13 newtrinity /kernel: (da0:dpt0:0:0:0): CCB 0xc83fd07c - timed out
> Aug  4 13:16:13 newtrinity /kernel: (da0:dpt0:0:0:0): CCB 0xc83fd07c - timed out CCB already completed
> 
> simon shapiro who did the freebsd support for dpt controllers told me to first check if the array has a lost disk which normally causes this problem but it hasn't
> 
> he told me further this is a classic problem if the dpt firmware takes too long in the opinion of the cam abstraction layer to complete a transaction and then the dpt completes a "non-existing" transaction a while later
> 
> i already wrote an email to justin gibbs to tell me the parameter but he unfortunately didn't reply
> 
> i had a look to the cam sources but i didn't see something concerning disabling  the timeout for transaction
> 
> thanks
> marius
> 
> 
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