From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 6 14:20:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FAAD14EF2 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:20:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA34483; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 23:20:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 23:20:22 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200001062220.XAA34483@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can some tell me what these scsi errors mean? X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <852i0r$8au$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG nat@mylanders.com wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > This is from a 3.3 Release system. And 02:00 is when > the backup starts. > > Jan 6 02:01:57 www /kernel: (sa0:ahc1:0:6:0): SCB 0x8 - timed out while > idle, LASTPHASE == > 0x1, SEQADDR == 0xc > Jan 6 02:01:57 www /kernel: (sa0:ahc1:0:6:0): Queuing a BDR SCB > Jan 6 02:01:57 www /kernel: (sa0:ahc1:0:6:0): Bus Device Reset Message > Sent > Jan 6 02:01:57 www /kernel: (sa0:ahc1:0:6:0): no longer in timeout, > status = 34b > Jan 6 02:01:57 www /kernel: ahc1: Bus Device Reset on A:6. 1 SCBs aborted A device timeout occured (i.e. the sa driver had to wait too long for the device to respond), so the driver assumed that the drive went out for lunch, and it sent a reset command to try to bring it back. This could happen, for example, if the drive spends too much time trying to correct a read error, or if rewinding the tape takes too much time, or things like that. It could indicate a firmware or hardware error (termination etc.), too. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message