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Date:      Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:04:23 -0300
From:      "Petriz, Pablo" <ppetriz@siscat.com.ar>
To:        "'Todd Denniston'" <Todd.Denniston@ssa.crane.navy.mil>
Cc:        "'aic7xxx@freebsd.org'" <aic7xxx@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Many SCSI errors
Message-ID:  <1CEC5A75042ED51180E300A024E99257AD831A@zeus.sc.com>

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Hello Todd

> De: Todd Denniston
>
> > I saw the 'Many SCSI errors' post of Aug 19 2003 googling for=20
> > scsi "Transmision error detected".
> >=20
> > That post has no replies, but the problem is the same as mine.
> >=20
> > My configuration is an INTEL SE7501BR2 (AIC-7901) with RH=20
> Linux 9 (2.40.20)
> >=20
> > The SCSI device is a Promise UltraTrak SX-8000 with 8 300GB
> > Maxtor MaxlineII.
>=20
> Ok, we stop here...
> If you had searched for Promise, rm8000 or ultratrack on the=20
> mailing list [1]

I did search, but i think that case was pretty equal to mine.=20
Pherhaps i didn't express it very well, my natural language is
spanish...

> The first thing you should probably do is check is the=20
> firmware revision=20

It=B4s 1.1.0.30

> > Everething was working fine for 25 days and then it began=20
> to fail (a snip of
> > /var/log/messages is attached)
>=20
> I get, so far, max 18 days for the one which causes trouble.
>=20

Ok, but i still don't understand where is the problem! It's
the scsi driver, it's the Promise firmware... I have not many
tech skills, i'm the manager and i'm working side by side with
the sysadmin, but both of us don't get it.

You have 2 RM8000 and if i've understood ok, one works fine and
the other doesn't. =BFWhat's the difference between the two?

This tower is driving me nuts. We bought it in december and it=20
works fine for 1 or 2 weeks till we turn it off, then it began
to rebuild the 3rd. disk. We change it, rebuild the new one,=20
everething seems to be ok, but turn off, turn on and rebuild
again. Finally, after many tests, we sent the tower from Buenos
Aires to California and after a month we receive a new one with
the 1.1.0.30 firmware.

We were happy for some days, but now this. We don't know what
to do. I'll try to get some help from Promise, but i'm not sure
that the problem is in the firmware...

I hope i can get better help from here. Any suggestion that we=20
can try and test is really welcome.

Thanks in advance and greetings from Argentina,

PABLO



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