Subject: Re: problems with ahc vs. format command
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/10/2001 18:05:20
the first two lines appear immediately, the rest appear after a 10-second
pause.

there are problems with formatting with a ncr53c9x adapter as well.
I've opened PR 13160 for this collection of format problems.

-Chuck


On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 12:35:31AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:41:14PM -0700, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> > hi,
> > 
> > I tried to do a low-level format of a disk attached to an ahc tonight,
> > and it didn't work so well:
> > 
> > ahc0:A:2: no active SCB for reconnecting target - issuing BUS DEVICE RESET
> > SAVED_TCL == 0x20, ARG_1 == 0xff, SEQ_FLAGS == 0x40
> > sd2(ahc0:0:2:0): SCB 1d - timed out in Data-in phase, SEQADDR == 0x151
> > SCSIRATE == 0x0
> > sd2(ahc0:0:2:0): BDR message in message buffer
> > sd2(ahc0:0:2:0): SCB 1d - timed out in Data-in phase, SEQADDR == 0x151
> > SCSIRATE == 0x0
> > sd2(ahc0:0:2:0): no longer in timeout, status = 0
> > sd2: async, 8-bit transfers, tagged queueing
> > ahc0: Issued Channel A Bus Reset. 1 SCBs aborted
> > 
> > 
> > is this a problem with the ahc driver, or something else?
> 
> After how much time do the message appear ?
> I can be an interger overflow in the timeout computation in the ahc driver.
> 
> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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