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Date:      Sat, 28 Apr 2001 14:15:25 -0400
From:      cjm88@home.com
To:        UEDA Hiroyuki <ueda@netforest.co.jp>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.3-RELEASE kernel freeze(message dumped by ahc driver?)
Message-ID:  <3AEB08BD.BD686DBE@home.com>
References:  <20010429002918.4C85.UEDA@netforest.co.jp> <20010428184647.A807@basildon> <20010429025238.09E8.UEDA@netforest.co.jp>

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I have seen similar messages on adaptec hardware.  It was quite mystifying
because at first I thought there might
be some hardware issues on the system I was trying to resurect and the time
required to reproduce the error seemed
to be inversely proportional to the amount of disk IO taking place.  I ran
hardware diagnostics yet they came up
clean.  I ran seagate's scsi diagnostics (seatools) which you can download for
free and they also came
up clean.  Eventually I was able to track down the documentation for the host
adapter and discovered that the scsi
bus was not properly terminated on the motherboard.  Specifically the wide
terminaters should have been removed.
I did this, reinstalled the OS and the system ran clean.  Note that I had to
perform a reinstall... it appeared
that some data corruption had crept in.  Note also that while I was chasing
this issue down I permutated
through about 4 or 5 different versions of FreeBSD (4.2 and 4.3) and it seemed
some where more sensitive to the
issue than others.

Hope this helps.

C

UEDA Hiroyuki wrote:

> Thanks for your reply.
>
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 18:46:47 +0200
> Thomas Seck <tmseck@web.de> wrote:
> ;
> > >   I used FreeBSD 4.3-RC(1), and cvsuped with RELENG_4_3_0_RELEASE on
> > > 27th Apr, did make world, make kernel, and then reboot on 28th. I
> > > thought there was no problem, but 1 day later, kernel logged following
> ;
> > I have a PR open (kern/26880, unexpected busfree errors), cocerning
> > similar problems with an Adaptec 19160 and Quantum Atlas V discs.
> > Let's see what Justin T. Gibbs says about it.
>
>   I have checked your PR. Yes, my SCSI card is Adaptec AHA-2940U, but
> the HDD is made by IBM... Have you never seen such messages after
> updating HDD firmware ?  If so, I will try to update HDD firmware(but I
> think it's dangerous for me...).
>
> -------------
> UEDA Hiroyuki <ueda@netforest.co.jp>
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