Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 18:28:07 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Ben Jackson <bjj@sequent.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: buggy 2940 driver? Message-ID: <199601050228.SAA01157@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jan 1996 16:47:23 PST." <199601050047.QAA02879@eng4.sequent.com>
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Hi Ben, My problem is more less when my Quatum 2100 gets heavy i/o 9 out of 10 the system freezes shortly after the heavy i/o activity. I would try different scsi cables and maybe even get an active terminator for your setup. Cheers, Amancio >>> Ben Jackson said: > In message <199601042133.NAA00496@rah.star-gate.com> , you wrote: > > For a while now , I have been experiencing system freezes due to > > the 2940 controller. The thing is before I upgraded to 2.1-stable > > a while ago the system ran fine. > > > > It seems that sometimes under heavy disk i/o activity my 2940 goes > > into this reset mode [...] > > I have a 2940 connected to (among other things) a QUPD1800S. During > extended periods of heavy read activity (ie backups) the device and/or > card will eventually hang, leaving the machine hung (there's a swap > partition on that disk). The tape drive is on another SCSI controller, > so it's not the problem. I have had varying success avoiding the problem > by running backups from a vt while the machine is otherwise idle, but > sometimes it hangs anyway. > > After the hang the 2940 access light is on solid, as is the light on > the drive. I have upgraded to latest greatest drivers several times, > since each has held the promise of more and smarter bus reset code, to > no avail. I don't have another similar drive to experiment with, but > on my AHA1542Cf this same drive had no problems. > > --Ben
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