massato@panix.com
Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:49:47 -0500
massato@panix.com wrote:
(with regard to the hp colorado 8gb external)
> when I try to write a larger batch (300 MB or so), I get a "write DSC
> timeout".
grant@torque.net wrote:
> This problem was fixed in version 1.03 of the pt driver. You can
> upgrade to the pt.c from 2.0.36 or change the definition of PT_TMO to
> 3000. The problem didn't happen wiht my original drive, but I think
> more recent firmware is slower at ends of tracks.
Thanks, that did the trick. I was able to write big files from my
pentium machine.
Now I'm back to the 486 with the older parallel port. I tried to write a
big file here from this machine, and this time I get different errors.
I'm going to get a new EPP (ECP?) parallel port card tomorrow, and my
guess it that this is going to solve the problem (current port is off
a vlb ide card and is simply referred to as a "bi-directional port"--
detected by pt as "mode 2"). In the meantime, I'm pasting in some error
messages just for your reference in case they might be helpful in future
debugging or whatnot.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
(these are dmesg dumps from when I was trying to write out a large chunk
of data using different delay settings for 'insmod pt'. PT_TMO had been
changed to 3000.)
pt: pt version 1.02s, major 96
pt0: epat 1.01, Shuttle EPAT chip ff at 0x378, mode 2 (8-bit), delay 1
pt0: Phase error on write: 3
pt: pt version 1.02s, major 96
pt0: epat 1.01, Shuttle EPAT chip c6 at 0x378, mode 2 (8-bit), delay 2
pt0: Request sense before command: alt=0xff stat=0xff err=0x1ff loop=600001 phase=255
pt: pt version 1.02s, major 96
pt0: epat 1.01, Shuttle EPAT chip c6 at 0x378, mode 2 (8-bit), delay 3
pt0: Request sense before command: alt=0xff stat=0xff err=0x1ff loop=600001 phase=255
pt: pt version 1.02s, major 96
pt0: epat 1.01, Shuttle EPAT chip c6 at 0x378, mode 2 (8-bit), delay 10
pt0: Request sense: command phase error
pt0: write filemark before command: alt=0x7f stat=0x7f err=0x1ff loop=600001 phase=255
pt0: Request sense before command: alt=0xff stat=0xff err=0x1ff loop=600001 phase=255
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