More timeout problems :(

Alex garbanzo at hooked.net
Sun Sep 14 20:05:23 PDT 1997



On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Doug Ledford wrote:

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> 
> > >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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