From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 4 13: 0:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 380FC4094 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 13:00:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA63569; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 14:00:34 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ken) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 14:00:34 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: alvermark@teligent.se Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with Adaptec card and FreeBSD 2.2.2 Message-ID: <20000204140034.A63538@panzer.kdm.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from jakob@teligent.se on Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 07:26:29PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ It is usually best to send SCSI problems to the freebsd-scsi list ] On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 19:26:29 +0100, Jakob Alvermark wrote: > Hi All. > > We are having problems with FreeBSD 2.2.2 and some Adaptec SCSI card. > This is the errors showing on the screen: > > "Timed Out in dataout phase. > SCSISIGI=0xe6 > SEQADDR=0x133 > SCSISEQ=0x12 > Issued Cannel A bus reset. > 2 SCB's aborted " > > "The SCSI bus had locked up or lost connection with the harddrive > again." > > I have only heard a rumor that there might be a problem with FreeBSD 2.2.2 > and the Adaptec SCSI cards and heavy load. Is this true? > > This has happened to several machines. It seems to happen about once every > week. The machines have quite heavy load at times. > > Is this a known problem? How to fix? Change SCSI-card to a different > brand? Upgrade to a newer release of FreeBSD? In general, a timeout during datain, dataout, command phase, etc., is due to cabling or termination problems. The old FreeBSD SCSI layer (before 3.0) did have some problems, but the above bug is hardware-related, and probably not software. There have been many, many bugs fixed in CAM, as well as in the Adaptec driver in CAM. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message