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Date:      Sun, 1 Nov 1998 12:24:09 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com>
To:        Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: scsi disk (cam?) problems
Message-ID:  <199811011924.MAA08917@narnia.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <199811010132.UAA04810@bb01f39.unx.sas.com> <199811010208.TAA27408@panzer.plutotech.com> <19981101195246.10586@cicely.de>

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In article <19981101195246.10586@cicely.de> you wrote:
> Very interesting.
> I've saw the same message yesterday:
> Oct 31 20:10:18 cicely5 /kernel: (da23:ahc4:0:1:0): Invalidating pack

What kinds of power supplies are all of you using?  The reason the
pack is being invalidated is that the drive in question is not
responding within a selection timeout period (250ms).  This is
usually because of a device no being there, but I suspect in this
case the cause is a parallel I/O load that pushes your drives
to their maximum power rating, saturating your power supply leaving
one or more devices starving for power.  Any I/O attempted while
the drive is going through a power-on reset is likely to fail with
a selection timeout.

I will change the error handler for the selection timeout case to
return EIO instead of ENXIO, but this is just a temporary work around
until we can provide a better pack invalidation scheme in the system.

--
Justin

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