From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 20 11:55: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE9E1151F7 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:55:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA23081; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:52:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:52:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Francis Percival C. Favoreal" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Francis Percival C. Favoreal wrote: > Anyone seen this error before? > > (da0:ncr0:0:0:0): Invalidating pack > > This has happened to me several times already. I am running FreeBSD > 3.1-RELEASE, P-350, 64MB RAM, Seagate ST36530W 6GB. > > Whenever this happens, I noticed that the SCSI HD suddenly went silent, > like its motor stopped spinning. Usually I tried to reboot to remedy the > problem. > > Also, when I switch off the server, and switch it back on after a few > minutes, the server never boots anymore because the SCSI HD was not > detected. When this happens, I noticed also that the SCSI HD is silent, > like its motor is not spinning. I think your disk is dying. If they won't spin up on boot and won't probe, the internal diagnostics are failing. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message