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Date:      Sat, 31 May 1997 11:43:00 +0200 (MEST)
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   ncr timeouts
Message-ID:  <199705310943.LAA24617@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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cvsup.de.freebsd.org (blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de) had some problems
over the past which I'm hoping to get cured. Uptime wasn't very high
(a couple of days only) and I don't know which circumstance
causes it to get amnesic by ncr timeouts.

It has two ncr PCI controllers (cheapo) and today I swapped them against
SC200 (ASUS). Still not sure if this will cure it. The symptom is as
follows:

ncr1: SCSI phase error fixup: CCB already queued (0xf0d55200)
ncr1: timeout f0d55200 (skip)
ncr1: timeout f0d55200 (skip)
ncr1: timeout f0d55200 (skip)
ncr1: timeout f0d55200 (skip)
ncr1: timeout f0d55200 (skip)
ncr1: timeout f0d55200 (skip)

The system is dead in this situation, i.e. cannot access it's  disks.

The two ncr controllers form a CCD devices (two quantum 3 GB disks = 6GB)
This ccd device is NFS exported to ftp.de.freebsd.org and I suspect
that it happens when ftp.de.freebsd.org runs it's nightly ls -lR >ls-lR
file which might also be a NFS stress test and maybe it's the
combination of NFS, CCD and the two controllers. Or might it be just a
hard drive problem? Well, the hardware was brand new when I bought it
5 months ago. So at present I put my hope in the maybe somewhat
better (ASUS) controllers. But maybe Stefan could comment this
also.

--
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de




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