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Date:      Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:01:44 -0600
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>
To:        Erik Bakke <erikhb@bgnett.no>
Cc:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AHC SCSI errors 
Message-ID:  <199807232006.OAA23160@pluto.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Jul 1998 21:23:59 %2B0200." <35B78DCF.F021F9A3@bgnett.no> 

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>> 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



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