SUMMARY: WangDAT3400DX vs Solaris 2.4

From: James Ashton (jaa@alfred.anu.edu.au)
Date: Tue Jul 25 1995 - 01:31:08 CDT


Sorry to trouble the list with this one. I had no responses which was
probably what I deserved since it turned out that my problem was, you
guessed it, a

                        BAD SCSI CABLE

My original question was:

>I'm trying to set up a WangDAT3400DX drive on a Solaris 2 machine.
>The relevant lines I put in my `/kernel/drv/st.conf' file are:
>
> "WangDAT Model 3400DX ","WangDAT 4mm DAT", "DAT2",
>
>and
>
>DAT2 = 1,0x34,0,0xd639,4,0x00,0x8c,0x8c,0x8c,1
>
>This is my best guess based on my SunOS 4.1.3 setup but I'd appreciate
>anyone letting me know where I can find definitive info. I can't see
>any WangDAT info on the net and our suppliers are unhelpful.
>
>Anyway, during reboot I get a bunch of messages:
>
>Jul 4 16:05:01 host unix: WARNING: /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000 (esp0):
>Jul 4 16:05:01 host unix: Unknown bus phase: current esp state:
>Jul 4 16:05:01 host unix: esp: State=UNKNOWN Last State=SELECT_SNDMSG
>Jul 4 16:05:01 host unix: esp: Latched stat=0x85<IPND,MSG,IO> intr=0x18<BUS,FCMP> fifo 0x0
>Jul 4 16:05:01 host unix: esp: last msg out: IDENTIFY; last msg in: COMMAND COMPLETE
>Jul 4 16:05:03 host unix: esp: DMA csr=0xa4240010<INTEN>
>Jul 4 16:05:03 host unix: esp: addr=fc000c68 dmacnt=0 last=fc000c68 last_cnt=1
>Jul 4 16:05:03 host unix: esp: Cmd dump for Target 5 Lun 0:
>Jul 4 16:05:03 host unix: esp: cdblen=6, cdb=[ 0x12 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x30 0x0 ]
>
>Jul 4 16:05:03 host unix: esp: pkt_state=0x3<SEL,ARB> pkt_flags=0xb pkt_statistics=0x0
>Jul 4 16:05:03 host unix: esp: cmd_flags=0x1422 cmd_timeout=60
>
>Does this just indicate my SCSI bus is bad or is the kernel just
>misunderstanding some response the drive is making? I've tried two
>identical drives, one of which has worked well for ages on another Sun
>running 4.1.3. A CDROM drive earlier on the bus works fine so the bus
>can't be too badly off, but the tape drive is at the end.
>Unfortunately I don't have the cabling to juggle the bus order since a
>variety of SCSI connector types are involved :-(.

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