Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 00:00:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quantum Atlas II warning Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980513235703.11116C-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199805140512.XAA13306@pluto.plutotech.com>
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how old are these drives/firmware revisions? are we talking about new or old drives? On Wed, 13 May 1998, 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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