[ On Saturday, January 31, 2004 at 14:34:19 (-0600), Dan Debertin wrote: ]
> Subject: esp/SCSI problems
>
> I'm seeing problems under heavy load with one of my disks on an
> SS20. It is, unfortunately, my root disk, so it's difficult to
> troubleshoot when this happens. The disk probes as:
> 
> sd0 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST150176LC, 0002> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
> sd0: 47702 MB, 12024 cyl, 22 head, 369 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 97693755 sectors
> sd0: sync (100.0ns offset 15), 8-bit (10.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing
> 
> Posts in the archives suggest turning off tagged queueing, but I have
> no idea whether that's still pertinent, nor do I know how to disable
> it.

Yes, that may be one of those disks with broken firmware -- perhaps
adding a quirk entry to disable tagged queueing would help, and if not
at least it might help narrow down the search for the real problem....

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