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Date:      Fri, 14 Jan 2000 07:47:33 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com>
To:        cjclark@home.com
Cc:        scsi@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Drive failing?
Message-ID:  <200001141447.HAA05603@narnia.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <200001140441.XAA46184@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>

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In article <200001140441.XAA46184@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> you wrote:
> I had been having some trouble on the SCSI chain on a small server. I
> finally isolated one of the HDDs (after swapping SCSI cards, changing
> the cables, checking connections and terminators). I thought the drive
> was "fixed" by mapping out some bad sectors once I ran diagnostics on
> the drive from BIOS on the SCSI card. But after two days of adequate
> performance from the drive I got,
> 
> Jan 13 21:40:47 backmail /kernel: (da4:aha0:0:6:0): Invalidating pack
> Jan 13 21:40:48 backmail /kernel: (da4:aha0:0:6:0): Invalidating pack
> Jan 13 21:40:48 backmail /kernel: (da4:aha0:0:6:0): Synchronize cache failed, status == 0x4a, scsi status == 0x0
> 

The cam status indicates that a selection timeout occurred during our
attempt to synchronize the cache.  My guess that repeated selection
timeouts caused the invalidating pack messages.  Why the device is
unresponsive, I don't know, but the system can't do anything to recover
a device that won't talk on the bus.

--
Justin


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