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Date:      Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:50:09 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Tom Wadlow <wadlow@pilot.net>
Cc:        scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: A problem with SCSI
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.9812111149270.1719-100000@feral-gw>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9812111048430.6334-100000@arrow.pilot.net>

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Any other messages when it crashed? The 'tagged openings' message is just
the process of throttling down the # of cmds outstanding per device..


On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Tom Wadlow wrote:

> 
> > Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:07:29 -0700 (MST)
> > From: Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com>
> > Subject: Re: A problem with SCSI
> > 
> > > occasionally, the da driver says: "Invalidating pack", and drops
> > > the disk offline and everything hangs.  This is unfortunate.
> > 
> > Certainly is.  What kind of hardware are you using (SCSI controller,
> > devices on the bus, CPU, etc.)?
> 
> I've built out several systems from 3.0-RELEASE that all seeem to manifest this problem.
> Two die on a regular basis.  The third gets strange messsages but seems to stay up.
> 
> Machines dying with "Invalidating pack"
> 	A)	Pentium 100MHz
> 		64MB RAM
> 		BusLogic 496 SCSI controller
> 		4GB Connor SCSI (only device on the SCSI chain)
> 		Ethernet
> 		Floppy
> 
> 	B)	Pentium 120MHz
> 		96MB RAM
> 		BusLogic 496 SCSI controller
> 		1GB Connor SCSI (only device on the SCSI chain)
> 		Ethernet
> 		Floppy
> 
> Machine with strange messages:
> 		Pentium II 330 MHz
> 		128MB RAM
> 		HP SCSI CDROM
> 		Seagate 4GB SCSI (boot device)
> 		Seagate 9GB SCSI
> 		Ethernet
> 
> The strange messages this machine is getting look like this:
> 
> (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): tagged openings now 64
> (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): tagged openings now 63
> (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 64
> (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 63
> (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 62
> (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 61
> (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 60
> (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 59
> (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 58
> (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 57
> (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 56
> (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 55
> (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 54
> (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 53
> (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 52
> (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 51
> (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 50
> (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 49
> 
> but it hasn't crashed yet.  Which is good, as this is my primary workstation.
> 
> Machine B above has been updated to 3.0-CURRENT (as of last night), but still exhibits the
> problem.  All are running the GENERIC kernel.
> 
> --Tom
> 
> 
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