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Date:      Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:31:08 -0700
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
To:        Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Adaptec 29160 woes 
Message-ID:  <200201231931.g0NJV8u77642@aslan.scsiguy.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Jan 2002 10:11:36 PST." <200201231811.KAA17997@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org> 

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>I get SCSI parity errors trying to disklabel the last drive on the
>2nd card (da5). 

These are actually CRC errors.

>Suspecting the disk, I checked and scanned da5 by the BIOS verify
>utility. It's perfectly fine.

The Adaptec BIOS may have negotiated down to a speed that allowed
the verify to proceed.  FreeBSD's SCSI layer doesn't have any speed
fallback support yet.  The BIOS won't tell you if it has done this.

>Interestingly enough, the following:
>
>  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rda5s1

It is the target's responsibility to check the CRC or parity during
a write.  This just means that the target is able to read what we
are writing to it okay, but we are not always able to read what the
target is writing to us.

>Anyone have any clues as to what is going on...before I completely
>replace these controller cards? ;)

I doubt it is the controller.  I would suspect the drive has a
bad connector.  Do you get the same behavior if you force
narrow-async on this drive via SCSI-Select?

--
Justin

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