More timeout problems :(
Alex
garbanzo at hooked.net
Sun Sep 14 20:05:23 PDT 1997
On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Doug Ledford wrote:
> --------
>
> > >What kind of Quantum drives do you have? You didn't notice any
> > >QUEUE_FULL messages?
> >
> > The FreeBSD driver doesn't print them out because they often
> > occur in such rapid succession that it hangs the system. This
> > is most likely the problem though. I really need to get this CAM
> > code out for people to test since it properly fixes this problem.
>
> Alex's message didn't include the firmware revision on the Quantum TM3200S
> drive, but if it's revision 300X, that's the buggy revision that reliably
> locks the SCSI bus under certain load patterns. In that case, I strongly
> recommend the firmware revision 301B, which is unofficial but does great
> amounts of good on those Quantum Tempest 3.2GB drives. The firmware itself
> and the tool to download the firmware can be found on Leonard Zubkoff's site
> www.dandelion.com. I think it may be under the BusLogic SCSI driver
> section, but I'm not sure.
Rev 300N. Is that buggy too?
- alex
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