Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 01:48:33 -0400 From: Adam McDougall <mcdougall@ameritech.net> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quantum Atlas II warning Message-ID: <355A85B1.D154423D@ameritech.net> References: <199805140512.XAA13306@pluto.plutotech.com>
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Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > If you happen to be running any Atlas II drives with a frimware level below > LYK8, you'd be well advised to upgrade your firmware. We saw some really > nasty behavior on one of our machines here where, after a QUEUE FULL > condition, the drive would simply never reconnect for any pending > transactions. In CAM, the recovery code was able to bring the drive back > to life by issuing a BUS DEVICE RESET, but I don't know that the older > aic7xxx and NCR drivers would fair as well. After upgrading to LYK8 (from > LXY4), this particular QUEUE FULL issue was resolved. Supposedly LYK8 was > released specificly to deal with QUEUE FULL problems. The drive will > still return QUEUE FULL for temporary write cache full conditions, but at > least now it doesn't occasionally lose it's brain after doing so. YYMV. > > -- > Justin > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message *concerned atlas II owner voice* Hi, I have one, any idea if mine is in need of update? and if so, how would I? Thanks. sd0 at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 sd0: <QUANTUM XP39100W LX80> type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd0: Direct-Access 8682MB (17781008 512 byte sectors) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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