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Date:      Tue, 01 Jun 1999 10:54:09 +0000
From:      Peng HaiJie <phj@mail.transfar.com>
To:        Cliff Skolnick <cliff@steam.com>
Cc:        Joe@FreeBSD.ORG, \@FreeBSD.ORG, "Marcus\" Clarke <marcus@miami.edu>,   freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG"@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMP and SCSI problems in 3.2
Message-ID:  <3753BBD0.EB7D82A@mail.transfar.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905310339580.892-100000@lazlo.internal.steam.com>

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Why not try to plug it into other slot?
I had the same problem before,but  it disappeared
after I plug the SCSI card into other slot.

P.H.J.

Cliff Skolnick wrote:

> I had some really strange problems with an Adaptec 2940UW2 controller and a
> dual CPU system.  It looked like an interference problem with the noise of
> the high speed CPUs somehow getting back into the cable.  After re-routing
> the cables away from both CPUs things worked better, but eventually I had to
> dump the 2940UW2 for a 2940UW which worked perfectly in the machine.  I did
> try dropping the speed of the UW2 card before swapping, no help.
>
> I'm guessing that disabling the SMP code might be shutting down the CPU
> causing the trouble.  Try replacing the cables, re-routing cables and or a
> non UW2 controller.
>
> Cliff
>
> On Fri, 28 May 1999, Joe "Marcus" Clarke wrote:
>
> > Recently, we installed 3.2-RELEASE on our primary Computer Science server,
> > and began to see some severe errors when trying to do intensive (i.e.
> > dump/restore) disk operations to any of our SCSI-attached disks.  The
> > errors we are getting are as follows:
> >
> > (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): SCB 0x29 - timed out while idle, LASTPHASE == 0x1,
> > SEQADDR ==
> > 0x8
> > (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): Queuing a BDR SCB
> > (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): Bus Device Reset Message Sent
> > (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): no longer in timeout, status = 34c
> > ahc0: Bus Devices Reset on A:0.  3 SCBs aborted
> >
> > Disabling SMP seems to clear up some of this, but we were hoping to get
> > SMP and SCSI working together.  Our SCSI card is an Adaptec 2940UW2.
> > Attached is the kernel config file in use.  If this seems like a
> > termination problem, we're doubting it since we had this working with an
> > early version of 3.0-SNAP with CAM.
> >
> > Joe Clarke
> >
> >
> >
>
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