Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!rice!rice!sun-spots-request From: andrew@dgbt.doc.ca (Andrew Patrick DGBT/DBR) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Help! SCSI transport failed: reason 'reset' Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <1990Oct7.215928.23205@rice.edu> Date: 7 Oct 90 21:30:00 GMT Sender: sun-spots-request@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 34 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Originator: spots@walhalla.rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 325, message 14 Configuration: Sparcstation 1+ (4/65) running Sun OS 4.0.3 with these SCSI devices: 1 Exabyte tape drive (st0) (SS1 Consult Patch applied to support this device). 2 Wren VI external drives (sd1 & sd3) sd1: sd3: Problem: The following error messages are being logged to the console repeatedly: esp0: 0.0 data failure Stat=0x10, Intr=0x10 Last state='UNKNOWN', Last cmd='dma tran_info' DMA addr=0xfff04000, last=0xfff02000;Dma CSR=0x80000000 sd3: SCSI transport failed: reason 'reset': retrying command The drive sd3 is used primarily by a PC-NFS user, and he claims that he is doing fairly normal reads and writes from a DOS C program. However, he may have 2 PC-NFS clients reading or writing at the same time, but to different files. Anyone have any ideas what is causing these messages, how serious they are, and what, if anything, should be done about them? The man page for "sd" was not very informative. Andrew Patrick, Ph.D. Department of Communications, Ottawa, CANADA andrew@dgbt.doc.CA andrew@doccrc.BITNET HDTV: higher resolution, improved colour, wider screen, "sit-com" reruns. What's wrong with this picture?