From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Dec 14 12: 8:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CC9615152 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 12:08:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA00665; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 12:11:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912142011.MAA00665@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Matthew Reimer Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unexpected bus free & swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 Dec 1999 11:03:28 PST." <38569480.558FA790@vpop.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 12:11:24 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > We're running 3.3-stable from about 10/21/1999 on a machine that we > haven't physically touched for about four months. It has a (supposedly > good) LVD cable with a terminator at the end of the cable, that came > with the Asus motherboard. Last night, the kernel started printing the > errors below and the machine became unusable: couldn't login, > unresponsive shells, though it did still respond to pings. > > The blknos reported in the swap_pager message repeated in a cycle (e.g., > 8944, 328, 8944, 328...), and every now and then another blkno would be > added to the cycle, until at the end (just before we hit the reset > button) the cycle was > 8944,328,2640,174968,44560,42848,40720,3208,512,3160. > > Are we losing a disk, or is it some kind of bug, or...? > > Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. > > Matt > > Dec 13 17:35:00 merry /kernel: Unexpected busfree. LASTPHASE == 0x40 This is indicative of a disk going away, either from a firmware bug or overheating. Everything goes downhill from there (the command has been lost, and we don't recover well from that). -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message