Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 13:49:49 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: bob@obiwan.pmr.com (Bob Willcox) Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: aic7xxx.c: Target Busy console messages Message-ID: <199504102049.NAA00332@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Apr 1995 19:38:32 CDT." <m0rvwdc-000308C@obiwan.pmr.com>
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I think that I've killed these in current. Can you try the newer driver and get back to me? Thanks, Justin >Justin T. Gibbs wrote: >> >> >I have noticed that with my new AHA-2740 controller card I get repetitive >> > >> >ahc0: Target Busy >> > >> >Messages on the console when accessing my Exabyte 8200 tape drive. >> >> Did the probe say that it was a tagged queuing device? Does the >> device actually work regardless of the messages? > >No, it doesn't support tagged queueing (doesn't even support >synchronous xfers). Seems to work ok with dump and restore, though >I am having problems with dd and haven't really sorted them out >just yet. > >> > >> >>From this, it sounds to me that this is a rather normal condition >> >and that the driver should simply reissue the command (periodically) >> >until successful. Is this true of other devices as well? >> >> It does reissue the command. It just doesn't happen that often so I log >> it to the console. > >It happens quite often with this device :-( I seem to be getting >10-12 of them whenever I run dump or restore to it. > > >-- >Bob Willcox >bob@obiwan.pmr.com (or obiwan%bob@uunet.uu.net) >Austin, TX -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================
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