Re: 3940UW Driver Locks the Machine
Robert L Harris (nomad@rocky.orci.com)
Sun, 15 Feb 1998 09:02:50 -0700 (MST)
How can you turn it off for one device? It looks like I have to
turn it off for all...
>
> Hi!
>
> Robert L Harris wrote:
> >
> > When I try and read files off my jaz, usually it seems to lock my machine.
> > It locks the scsi activity light on and if I can get to the console I get
> > alot of errors concerning the queue. This time I didn't change the adapter
> > defaults.
> >
> > Who do I work with to see about fixing this?
> >
> Try disabling command queueing for the JAZ device in the adapter
> setup. This helped for me, though I have to admit that a SCSI device
> shouldn't completely lock up the system.
>
> With a ncr53c8xx-based board the JAZ drive still doesn't work well with
> command queueing, but the driver doesn't completely lock up the machine,
> it returns an error code after a short timeout and continues working.
>
> With command queuing turned off for the JAZ drive it works stable and
> well!
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> - andreas
>
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