From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed May 13 22:48:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA12336 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 22:48:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thing.dyn.ml.org (dyn2-tnt2-171.detroit.mi.ameritech.net [206.141.229.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA12324 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 22:48:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mcdougall@ameritech.net) Received: from ameritech.net (user1@bsdx [192.168.1.2]) by thing.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA03653; Thu, 14 May 1998 01:48:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mcdougall@ameritech.net) Message-ID: <355A85B1.D154423D@ameritech.net> Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 01:48:33 -0400 From: Adam McDougall Reply-To: mcdougall@ameritech.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Justin T. Gibbs" CC: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quantum Atlas II warning References: <199805140512.XAA13306@pluto.plutotech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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: 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