Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 19:03:38 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher T. Johnson" <cjohnson@camelot.com> To: "Christopher T. Johnson" <cjohnson@neunacht.netgsi.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NCR 810a breaks AMANDA, help please Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971125190215.5407A-100000@cygnet.camelot.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971125150603.349A-100000@neunacht.netgsi.com>
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On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Christopher T. Johnson wrote:
> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:29:54 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Christopher T. Johnson" <cjohnson@neunacht.netgsi.com>
> To: questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: NCR 810a breaks AMANDA, help please
>
> Because one of our new computers needs an ISA scsi card, on Friday I
> decided to upgrade my computer from an Adaptec 1542CP to an NCR
> controller. The controller I ended up with is an ASUS SC-200 which is
> recogonized as an NCR 53c810a. All well and good.
>
> I'm running FreeBSD Current as of Monday night.
>
> Once I installed the 810, disk response seemed to be much more responsive
> but my amflush died.
There are days when it does not pay to get up in the morning...
The error or is:
rewinding...[input/output error.]
or equivlent. errno=5 on the IOCTL to do the rewind after the O_WRONLY
Chris
>
> The following test code will cause the same error to occur:
> ----------------------------------
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <sys/mtio.h>
> #include <fcntl.h>
>
> main()
> {
> struct mtop mt;
> int result;
> int tapefd;
> #define BUFFER_SIZE (32*1024)
> char buffer[BUFFER_SIZE];
>
> fprintf(stderr,"We is here.\n");
>
> tapefd = open("/dev/nrst0", O_RDONLY);
> if (tapefd < 0) {
> perror("open");
> }
> printstatus(tapefd);
>
> fprintf(stderr,"Rewind 1.\n");
> mt.mt_op = MTREW;
> mt.mt_count = 1;
> result = ioctl(tapefd, MTIOCTOP, &mt);
> if (result < 0) {
> perror("rewind 1");
> }
>
> printstatus(tapefd);
> result = close(tapefd);
> if (result) {
> perror("close 1");
> }
>
> fprintf(stdout,"closed, now opening WRONLY\n");
>
> tapefd = open("/dev/nrst0", O_WRONLY);
> if (tapefd < 0) {
> perror("open 2");
> }
> printstatus(tapefd);
> fprintf(stderr,"Rewind 1.\n");
> mt.mt_op = MTREW;
> mt.mt_count = 1;
> result = ioctl(tapefd, MTIOCTOP, &mt);
> if (result < 0) {
> perror("rewind 1");
> }
> printstatus(tapefd);
>
> memset(buffer, '\0', BUFFER_SIZE);
> sprintf(buffer, "AMANDA: TAPESTART DATE %s TAPE %s\n\014\n",
> "X", "NET024");
> result = write(tapefd, buffer, BUFFER_SIZE);
> if (result != BUFFER_SIZE) {
> if (result > 0) {
> perror("short write");
> }
> }
> printstatus(tapefd);
> result = close(tapefd);
> if (result) {
> perror("close");
> }
> fprintf(stderr,"We're out of here....\n");
> return 0;
> }
> printstatus(int fd)
> {
> struct mtget status;
> int result;
> result = ioctl(fd, MTIOCGET, &status);
> if (result) {
> perror("ioctl MTIOCGET");
> }
> fprintf(stdout,"mt_type = 0x%x\nmt_dsreg = 0x%x\nmt_erreg = 0x%x\n",
> status.mt_type, status.mt_dsreg, status.mt_erreg);
> }
>
> ------------------------
>
> I replaced the NCR card with the 1542 and the problem went away. Went
> back to the NCR for more debugging.
>
> Here is what scsi says is the sense status after a rewind failure.
>
> -------------------------
> scsi -f /dev/rst0.ctl -c "03 00 00 00 20 00" -i 32 - |\
> hexdump -C
> 00000000 70 00 00 00 00 7f ff 12 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |p...............|
> 00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 22 f3 b1 00 00 00 00 00 00 |......."........|
> --------------------------
> The command has also responeded as:
> 00000000 70 00 00 00 ff ff ff 12 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |p...............|
> 00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 22 f3 b1 00 00 00 00 00 00 |......."........|
>
>
> Here is the results of the inquire:
> scsi -f /dev/rst0.ctl -c "12 0 0 0 40 0" -i 64 "s8 z8 z16 z4"
> EXABYTE EXB-8200 252X
>
> ------------
>
> For grins, I modified the NCR driver so that the 53c810a was treated
> just like it was a 53c810 as far as features was concerned, this made
> no difference.
>
> -------------------
>
>
> Oh, the other reason I want to get away from the ADAPTEC card, it
> gives me DMA beyond ISA range error messages often.
>
> Often enough that I'm willing to take a few dumps of the system for
> anybody that wants to debug the aha driver.
>
> Thanks in advance...
> Christopher T. Johnson <cjohnson@netgsi.com>
> P.S. I'm running 3 weeks behind on my freebsd lists, please cc a copy
> of any response to my e-mail address, thanks.
>
>
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