From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Jun 22 14:55:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1085414D15 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:55:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id XAA28752; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 23:04:18 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA01736; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 20:44:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199906221844.UAA01736@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: missing time and date in SCSI syslog messages In-Reply-To: <199906220113.UAA86029@nospam.hiwaay.net> from David Kelly at "Jun 21, 1999 8:13:17 pm" To: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 20:44:17 +0200 (CEST) Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As David Kelly wrote ... > Andreas Klemm writes: > > > It looks like you have a cabling or termination problem. Or perhaps a bent > > > pin somewhere. > > > > Hmm, didn't touch the system for about weeks ... Two weeks ago > > the system got additional ram ... > > > > > It doesn't necessarily look like a drive problem, but more like a SCSI bus > > > problem. > > > > Hmm... > > Recently I was having problems with a 4G HD. Looked like the drive was > doomed as it was spinning up and down. Prior weeks it had simple random > errors. Opened the case and pulled the power plug from the drive. It > came out too easily. Crimped the pins a bit with needle nose pliers. Its > been running perfectly the past month. > > One day when "camcontrol defects" works with IBM drives (and 1st > generation Adaptec 2940 in this case), then I'll see how many bad blocks > are in the grown list. > > Its partly my fault for camcontrol not working as I haven't snipped the > error messages and forwarded them to the appropriate places. Altho I > have done same for Symbios/NCR and IBM combination. Well, I can get you sample output for IBM disks connected to an NCR875 (Fireport 40) and a Qlogic ISP1040. Just tell me what exact cmd string you fed camcontrol to get the defect list. W/ -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message