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Date:      Thu, 2 Mar 2000 13:09:43 -0500 (EST)
From:      Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net>
To:        Kim Shrier <kim@tinker.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: disk errors
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10003021255450.94912-100000@kronos.alcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <38BEA963.DDB0EEC8@tinker.com>

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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Kim Shrier wrote:

[snip common complaint about -questions lacking answers]

> 
> I am having some trouble with one of my SCSI disks and I am trying to
> figure out if the problem is the drive or the controller card.  The
> system in question has crashed 4 times in the past year and it never
> logged anything suspicious until today.  Right before the crash, these
> messages showed up in the log:
> 
> Mar  1 15:50:06 hrothgar /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): data overrun detected in
> Data-Out phase.  Tag == 0x4e.
> Mar  1 15:50:06 hrothgar /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): Have seen Data Phase. 
> Length = 8192.  NumSGs = 2.
> Mar  1 15:50:06 hrothgar /kernel: sg[0] - Addr 0x4926000 : Length 4096
> Mar  1 15:50:06 hrothgar /kernel: == 0x4e.
> Mar  1 15:50:06 hrothgar /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): Have seen Data Phase. 
> Length = 8192.  NumSGs = 2.
> Mar  1 15:50:06 hrothgar /kernel: sg[0] - Addr 0x4926000 : Length 4096
> Mar  1 15:50:06 hrothgar /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): data overrun detected in
> Data-Out phase.  Tag == 0x4e.
> Mar  1 15:50:06 hrothgar /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): Have seen Data Phase. 
> Length = 8192.  NumSGs = 2.
> Mar  1 15:50:06 hrothgar /kernel: sg[0] - Addr 0x4926000 : Length 4096
> 
> 
> 
> The machine has an Adaptec 3940uw SCSI controller card and 3 Seagate
> ST34573W barracuda drives, 2 on the first channel and 1 on the second.
> The drive giving me the problem is the first drive on the first
> channel.  What I am trying to figure out is if the problem is in the
> drive or the controller card.  Following are the boot messages for the
> hardware in question:
> 
> 

  I used to see these exact same messages when drives overheated. Since
you are only getting the errors on the one drive, check if it isn't as
well ventalated as the others (or maybe it is on top of the stack of
drives in your tower?).

  Kelly

--
Kelly Yancey  -  kbyanc@posi.net  -  Richmond, VA
Analyst / E-business Development, Bell Industries  http://www.bellind.com/
Maintainer, BSD Driver Database       http://www.posi.net/freebsd/drivers/
Coordinator, Team FreeBSD        http://www.posi.net/freebsd/Team-FreeBSD/



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