From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Jul 23 13:07:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA23000 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:07:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pluto.plutotech.com (mail.plutotech.com [206.168.67.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22982 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:07:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gibbs@plutotech.com) Received: from narnia.plutotech.com (narnia.plutotech.com [206.168.67.130]) by pluto.plutotech.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA23160; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:06:56 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199807232006.OAA23160@pluto.plutotech.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Erik Bakke cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AHC SCSI errors In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 Jul 1998 21:23:59 +0200." <35B78DCF.F021F9A3@bgnett.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:01:44 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> Another possibility that Matthew Jacob brought up is that the drives >> may be performing thermal recal. The Seageate rep once told us that >> their newer drives perform recalibration on a per-track basis which >> only blocks for ~250ms. Perhaps he lied. You can certainly try >> bumping up the timeout values in the scsi_da driver (try 1 minute) and >> see if this addresses your problem. >> >I compiled a new kernel today, with the timeout set to 120 seconds, but >the problem persists. For each SCSI ID that is inquired at boot it >gives me 5 errors and moves on to the next ID. When it has scanned all >the IDs it continues to boot normally. So this only occurs at boot? Can you provide a dmesg output that contains the errors? It almost sounds like the drive doesn't appreciate multi-lun probing. You wouldn't happen to have a Rev B. aic7880 would you? -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message