From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Nov 17 3:48:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from brunel.uk1.vbc.net (brunel.uk1.vbc.net [194.207.2.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFCC337B479; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 03:48:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (lloyd@localhost) by brunel.uk1.vbc.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAHBmCr57868; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 11:48:12 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: brunel.uk1.vbc.net: lloyd owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 11:48:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Lloyd Rennie X-Sender: lloyd@brunel.uk1.vbc.net To: Mike Smith Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mylex AcceleRAID-170 32Mb - Help needed with errormsg In-Reply-To: <200011140106.eAE16qF01133@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > Ripped the code for the driver for this card from the 5.x tree, and > > recompiled/installed for 4.1.1-RELEASE. All seemed to work like a dream. > > > > Two weeks or so later, and it's frozen. Powercycling gives this message > > before the boot freezes; > > > > Automatic boot in progress... > > /dev/da0s1a: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS > > /dev/da0s1a: clean, 99584 free (856 frags, 12341 blocks, 0.7% fragmentation) > > mly0: got AM completion for illegal slot 12288 at 62 > > mly0: got AM completion for illegal slot 28672 at 63 > > mly0: got AM completion for illegal slot 49152 at 64 > > > > (last 3 messages are in hi-white) > > > > And there it sits, no panic or reboot prompt. > > > > While I can find this error quite easily in the driver sources, I find no > > explanation of what it means (I have no knowledge of how SCSI works, what > > a 'slot' is in this context, etc.) > > > > Can someone shed a little light on this? > > This looks frighteningly like a new manifestation of a known quirk in the > Mylex firmware (see mlxreg.h and the discussion on the size of the > command ring). I haven't had any feedback from Mylex on that quirk > though. :/ Couldn't find the discussion in mlxreg.h > However, the fact that the card was running fine, but is now falling over > as soon as you boot leads me to wonder if you aren't having hardware > problems. Is the card overheating? Is the DIMM properly inserted? Is > the card properly seated? Yup. Tried different memory too - the error's still present but the numbers are different (equally out-of-range though). And it's not overheating cos we can leave the thing off overnight and it happens first boot in the morning. Apologies for the reply delay - thought I'd sent this, but just found it postponed :/ -- Lloyd Rennie VBCnet GB Ltd lloyd@vbc.net tel +44 (0) 117 929 1316 http://www.vbc.net fax +44 (0) 117 927 2015 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message