Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 09:53:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: "Freeman P. Pascal IV" <pascal@compute.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with onboard Adaptec 7870 on Intel ALTServer motherboard... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970702094727.4275B-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <33BA757E.344C05E1@compute.com>
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On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Freeman P. Pascal IV wrote: > I have upgraded to 2.2.2-RELEASE as recommended, and that has You should now cvsup to 2.2-stable, which contains additional patches. .. > lots of files removed. There's no record of a cause. I suspect > that the system is panicing while freeing an inode or something > (this would explain lack of messages). Did you check "dmesg" for a cause? If the disk is unwritable, kernel messages are written into a RAM message buffer which is preserved accross warm boots. > I've swapped out the complete machine - only the disks are the > same, and the problem persists. Somes drives just suck, and you will have problems with every os. The Grand Prix is notorious. I hear this everywhere I go, whether Windows NT or Netware. > I wish I knew more about the scsi drivers, I'd put sometime into > tracing the problem. All I've been able to determine is that the > error messages are coming from aic7xxx.c. > > The errors I'm seeing are: > > sd0(ahc0:0:0): SCB 0x0 - timed out in datain phase, SCSISIGI == 0x44 > SEQADDR = 0x125 SCSISEQ = 0x12 SSTAT0 = 0x4 SSTAT1 = 0x3 > sd0(ahc0:0:0): abort message in message buffer > sd0(ahc0:0:0): SCB 0x0 - timed out in datain phase, SCSISIGI == 0x54 > SEQADDR = 0x125 SCSISEQ = 0x12 SSTAT0 = 0x4 SSTAT1 = 0x3 > ahc0: Issued Channel A Bus Reset. 1 SCBs aborted > Clearing bus reset > Clearing 'in-reset' flag > sd0(ahc0:0:0): no longer in timeout > sd0(ahc0:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:29,2 > , retries:3 > sd1(ahc0:1:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:29,0 > sd1(ahc0:1:0): Power on, reset, or bus device reset occurred > , retries:2 This is bad. The drive is saying it was power cycled. You should swap this drive. > sd2(ahc0:2:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:29,0 > sd2(ahc0:2:0): Power on, reset, or bus device reset occurred > , retries:2 > > > It happens on all of the disks, mostly sd0 since it is the most > accessed. > > Any help would be appreciated - if I can't fix this, I'll have to > switch to Solaris 2.5.1 X86 which I don't want to do. > > -Freeman Tom
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