Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 13:35:35 -0100 From: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> To: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will a termination problem cause total hangs? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19980404133534.006d1644@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de>
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At 12:37 03.04.98 -0800, you wrote: > >Can a termination problem cause total kernel hangs? > >Right now, at least two of us on -questions are experiencing problems with >total lockups (no pings) when in X, usually when using Netscape (in my >case) or in heavy concurrent disk accesses (in Malte's case) on SCSI >systems with a number of SCSI devices. (4 to 7). In my case i encounter this hangs also when in X. Since i run XDM i dont know if it would happen without X. This crashes happen always to me on heavy-loaded scsi-bus-activity where more than one device are involved. In my case this is not just related to X or NS. This kind of hangs also happen in Win95. > >Malte has had success in reducing the hangs by changing the termination, >and I'm wondering if the sorts of hangs we're looking at could be caused >by termination problems. > >Both of us have Adaptec 2940UWs. I am using a plain AHA-2940 under FBSD-2.1.5(R) > >Any ideas or suggestions? I had thought that a SCSI hung kernel would at >least return pings? > Malte Lance malte@webmore.com >bryan k ogawa <bkogawa@primenet.com> http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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