From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Jan 14 7: 1: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from narnia.plutotech.com (narnia.plutotech.com [206.168.67.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 612E614DAB for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 07:01:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com) Received: (from gibbs@localhost) by narnia.plutotech.com (8.9.3/8.7.3) id HAA05603; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 07:47:33 -0700 (MST) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 07:47:33 -0700 (MST) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Message-Id: <200001141447.HAA05603@narnia.plutotech.com> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Drive failing? X-Newsgroups: pluto.freebsd.scsi In-Reply-To: <200001140441.XAA46184@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980818 ("Laura") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.0-CURRENT (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message