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Date:      Thu, 06 Aug 1998 16:55:02 -0600
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>
To:        Shafeeq Sinnamohideen <shafeeq@cyrus.watson.org>
Cc:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: disappearing cdrom w/ Bt948+CAM 
Message-ID:  <199808062300.RAA26747@pluto.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Aug 1998 18:38:22 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980806181233.19551B-100000@fledge.watson.org> 

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>
>With the 980716 snap, the troublesome CDROM is probed correctly :

Yeah!

>But if cd1 is accessed while there is activity on another drive,
>the system will pause about every minute or so with the leds on cd1, the
>controller, and the other drive lit, then continue 15-20 seconds later
>with the following messages logged :
>
>Aug  6 17:15:28 luthien /kernel: (da3:bt0:0:3:0): CCB 0xf415b980 - timed
>out
>Aug  6 17:15:45 luthien /kernel: (da3:bt0:0:3:0): CCB 0xf415b980 - timed
>out
>Aug  6 17:15:45 luthien /kernel: bt0: No longer in timeout

At least the error recovery works.

>As long as cd1 isn't being accessed, no problems occur even with heavy
>access on multiple drives.

Is the performance what you would expect??

>The controller info again is :
>
>bt0: <Buslogic Multimaster SCSI host adapter> rev 0x08 int a irq 17 on pci0.19
>.0
>bt0: BT-948 FW Rev. 5.06I Ultra Narrow SCSI Host Adapter, SCSI ID 7, 192 CCBs

I know that there is newer firmware available for this card.  Perhaps an
upgrade is also worth a shot.

>I'll try to see if this happens on a BT-445c as well. 

Thanks!

--
Justin



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