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Date:      Tue, 9 Jan 1996 19:51:09 +0100
From:      se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser)
To:        kowa@sunbayer45.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Wolfgang Kowarschick)
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: scsi problems (Repost)
Message-ID:  <199601091851.AA13775@Sysiphos>
In-Reply-To: kowa@sunbayer45.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Wolfgang Kowarschick) "Re: scsi problems (Repost)" (Jan  8, 14:12)

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On Jan 8, 14:12, Wolfgang Kowarschick wrote:
} Subject: Re: scsi problems (Repost)

} I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.0 on an Asus P55TP4XE Board with
} an Asus PCI-SC200 controller (NCR 53c810). I've three internal
} devices (Quantum Atlas 2GB, NEC CD-Rom 512, SQ 555 (44MB))
} and one external device (HP Dat Streamer).
} The termination of the scsi-bus seems to be correct
} (I'm not quite sure with the disk as I've no description
} of the jumper settings, but I think it's ok).
} 
} kernel output (copied by hand, so there may be some typos):
} 
} /kernel: st0(ncr0:3:0): NOT READY asc:4,1
}   logical unit is in process of becomming ready
}   phase change 2-7 10@004fc558 resid=9
} ncr0:0: ERROR(81:0) (f-aa-0) (8/13) @ (eq8:48000000)
}   script cond = c0000008

The 81 dstat indicates an illegal instruction.
There are two possible reasons:

1) The current instruction is not defined at all.

2) The current instruction can't be executed in the 
   current context (e.g. state of the SCSI bus).

In your case 1) seems to apply. There is no instruction 
starting with 48. This indicates a memory problem, IMHO.
Guess that the DRAM speed is marginally sufficient, but
sometimes just a little to low ...

If this can be reproduced, then please send more such logs. 
(You mentioned the possibility of typos: Please make sure 
those numbers are excactly what was written in the error 
log. At least ALL numbers in the two lines quoted above
MUST match reality, or I'm at a loss :-)

} vnode_papger_input: I/O read error
} vm_fault: pager input (problably hardware) error, PID 310 failes

} Note that the vm_fault error does also occur sometimes when the dat-streamer
} is switched off.

Well, then just DON't do it ... 
SCSI is not meant to be hot-pluggable!
And switching off devices may cause spikes on the bus lines.

Regards, STefan

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