SUMMARY: error messages

From: Richard C. Mills (rmills@ccd.harris.com)
Date: Thu Jun 23 1994 - 12:45:34 CDT


Hello,

Here is the orginal question:

> Has anyone seen these error messages before? They seem to be appearing
> every hour or so, and when they do the system seems to lock up for a short
> period of time. Thanks for any info.
>
> -Richard Mills
>
>
> polled command timeout
> esp: State=DATA_DONE Last State=DATA
> esp: Latched stat=0x91<IPND,XZERO,IO> intr=0x10<BUS> fifo 0x80
> esp: last msg out: <unknown msg>; last msg in: IDENTIFY
> esp: DMA csr=0xa6240310<EN,IN,INTEN>
> esp: addr=fc016800 dmacnt=8000 last=fc016000 last_cnt=1000
> esp: Cmd dump for Target 3 Lun 0:
> esp: cdblen=6, cdb=[ 0x8 0x1 0x2 0xc0 0x8 0x0 ]
> esp: pkt_state=0x7<CMD,SEL,ARB> pkt_flags=0x4000 pkt_statistics=0x1
> esp: cmd_flags=0x10422 cmd_timeout=60
> WARNING: /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000 (esp0):
> Connected command timeout for Target 3.0
> WARNING: /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000 (esp0):
> Target 3.0 reducing sync. transfer rate
> polled command timeout
> esp: State=DATA_DONE Last State=DATA
> esp: Latched stat=0x91<IPND,XZERO,IO> intr=0x10<BUS> fifo 0x80
> esp: last msg out: <unknown msg>; last msg in: IDENTIFY
> esp: DMA csr=0xa6240310<EN,IN,INTEN>
> esp: addr=fc016800 dmacnt=8000 last=fc016000 last_cnt=1000

Summary:

The consensus seems to be that I had one of the following problems:

1) SCSI Cable was too long.
2) Using a NON-SUN drive on a Sun SCSI bus.
3) Mixing SCSI and SCSI-2.
4) Bad SCSI Bus or cable.
5) Incorrect termination.

Solution:

Removing the external cdrom drive that had been chained on seems to have
fixed the problem. I'm still not sure where exactly the problem was since
I did not get a chance to check out any of the solutions (the user of the
workstation removed the cdrom drive himself). However, I would like
to thank to following people for their prompt responses:

From: kurt.stype@babss.COM (Kurt Stype)
From: Jerry Beers <jerry_beers@wiltel.com>
From: Dave Wilmot <dawi@gwl.com>
From: Tim Perala <tperala@ua.d.umn.edu>
From: mike@trdlnk.com (Michael Sullivan)
From: cuthbert@iss.cuc.ab.ca (Jan Cuthbertson - Un!x development)
From: Kerien Fitzpatrick <fitz@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu>
From: Juergen Wagner <gandalf@CSLI.Stanford.EDU>

                        Thank you,

                        Richard Mills

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