From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Apr 23 10:13:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A12237BB19 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 10:13:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nm@vt.edu) Received: from mail.vt.edu (gkar.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.40]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA29815; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 13:13:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dog ([198.82.106.223]) by gkar.cc.vt.edu (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with SMTP id <0FTH0032QBUQ0S@gkar.cc.vt.edu>; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 13:13:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 13:12:47 -0400 From: nm Subject: Re: scsi cable problems? X-Sender: nmanisca@mail.vt.edu To: Bernd Walter Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3.0.32.20000423131246.038f5470@mail.vt.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 06:25 PM 4/23/00 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: >Ops - that's quite different if you show the complete thing! >There are also timeouts - usually I would say it's a cabeling thing, but >I had the same phaenomen on an alpha with a SCSI-System that was known to >work on another host. >Interestingly also with an ahc - in my case an 2940UW. >Finally I exchanged the Adaptec with an Symbios-Controller and it works fine. >Maybe that's really a bug on alpha with ahc controllers. >I originally thought that it was still a cabeling problem eaven I searched and >exchanged everthing possible as the Controller seemed to work with some >narrow drives. But in my case it happened only under disk load and I'm not shure >if the old narrow drives are capable of stressing the system as much as the >two LVD 'cudas did. The SCA adapter can plug into either a narrow cable or wide cable. Hmm, here is what I have tested this drive on: windows pc with adaptec 2940uw (uw) - scsi bus resets alphastation 200 with adaptec 2940uw (uw) - what you saw Just now I booted my AS200 with the hitachi disk plugged into the onboard NCR controller (fast narrow). Here is what ensued: Entering kernel at 0xfffffc0000322d20... Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #3: Sat Mar 25 13:27:35 EST 2000 fb@anomaly.stupid.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/ANOMALY AlphaStation 200/400 ("Avanti") AlphaStation 200 4/233, 233MHz 8192 byte page size, 1 processor. CPU: EV45 (21064A) major=6 minor=0 OSF PAL rev: 0x100000002012e real memory = 132169728 (129072K bytes) avail memory = 125018112 (122088K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xfffffc0000592000. md0: Malloc disk pci0: on pcib0 ncr0: port 0x10100-0x101ff mem 0x82051000-0x820510ff ir q 11 at device 6.0 on pci0 ncr0: interrupting at ISA irq 11 ncr0: driver is using old-style compatability shims isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 de0: port 0x10280-0x102ff mem 0x82051180-0x820511ff irq 5 at device 11.0 on pci0 de0: interrupting at ISA irq 5 de0: DEC 21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.4 de0: address 00:00:f8:23:68:4f de0: driver is using old-style compatability shims ahc0: port 0x10000-0x100ff mem 0x82050000-0x82 050fff irq 10 at device 12.0 on pci0 ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs ahc0: interrupting at ISA irq 10 de1: port 0x10200-0x1027f mem 0x82051100-0x820511 7f irq 15 at device 13.0 on pci0 de1: interrupting at ISA irq 15 de1: ACCTON EN1207 21140A [10-100Mb/s] pass 2.2 de1: address 00:00:e8:40:9e:c6 de1: enabling 100baseTX port de1: driver is using old-style compatability shims fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: interrupting at ISA irq 6 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 atkbdc0: at port 0x60-0x6f on isa0 atkbd0: irq 1 on atkbdc0 atkbd0: interrupting at ISA irq 1 mcclock0: at port 0x70-0x71 on isa0 sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A, console sio0: interrupting at ISA irq 4 sio1: reserved for low-level i/o pcm0: at port 0x530-0x537 irq 9 drq 0 flags 0x1a111 on isa0 drq/irq conf 84 pcm0: interrupting at ISA irq 9 Timecounter "alpha" frequency 233329432 Hz Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle de0: enabling 10baseT port ncr0: SCSI phase error fixup: CCB already dequeued (0xfffffe0000660400) ncr0: timeout nccb=0xfffffe0000660400 (skip) ncr0: timeout nccb=0xfffffe0000660400 (skip) . . . forever... So, is the the same kinda thing thats been happening on the adaptec's? Think the drive has problems? I am wondering if I should RMA this sucker. Thanks, Nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message