Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 17:15:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> Cc: "John W. DeBoskey" <jwd@unx.sas.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: scsi time-out & lockup under smp Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970808171158.28159A-100000@shell.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970808095710.27428C-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
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On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Alex wrote: > On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, John W. DeBoskey wrote: > > > sd0: SCB 0x1 - timed out in command pahse, SCSISIGI == 0x86 > > SEQADDR = 0x8c SCSISEQ = 0x12 SSTAT0 = 0x7 SSTAT1 = 0x3 > > sd0: abort message in message buffer > > sd0: SCB 1 - Abort Completed. > > sd0: no longer in timeout > > sd0: SCB 0x1 - timed our while idle, LASTPHASE == 0x1, SCSISIGI = 0x0 > > SEQADDR = 0xb SCSISEQ = 0x12 SSTAT0 = 0x5 SSTAT1 = 0x2 > > sd0: Queueing an Abort SCB > > > > > > It only seems to occur when I start to initiate heavy disk io. It > > does not happen in the uni-proccesor situation. The complete output > > from dmesg is appended to this mail. If anyone can help me track this > > down, I'd really appreciate it. > > > > Thanks, > > John > > This is a fairly well known problem with the 2940U/UW, and probably > anything else based on the 7880. All I can say is that for heavy disk io, > don't use that controller, two controllers might be causing some of those > problems too. However I'd also suggest that you take the number of busses > down a notch, unless you have devices on bus 255, and that you cvsup the > most recent FreeBSD sources,as I think some improvments have been made to > this driver, and many improvments have been made to the smp code. > > - alex Well known problem? I've never seen it, even with heavy io on a 3940UW. I use AHC_TAGENABLE, but NOT AHC_SCBPAGING. I don't believe that any changes have been made to the ahc driver lately. I think this problem is device dependant. Certain devices will seize the bus, and driver is unable to get it back. Tomhelp
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