Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 22:05:25 -0700 (MST) From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG ORG'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Adaptec 2410SA starts doing this: aac0: COMMAND 0xc551a7e8 TIMEOUT AFTER 147 SECONDS (Modified by Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC) Message-ID: <20040305220055.E42979@pooker.samsco.home> In-Reply-To: <8ACA9163-6F29-11D8-8F17-003065A70D30@shire.net> References: <8ACA9163-6F29-11D8-8F17-003065A70D30@shire.net>
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On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > I originally sent this to -questions, but got no response. I hope this > is a good place to send this. While the drives and controller are > SATA, the driver is the SCSI aac driver for the adaptec raid, hence > this group. I would appreciate any attempts to help me understand what > is going on. I have flashed the latest BIOS and Firmware into the card > and upgraded FBSD to 5.2.1-RELEASE and it still has this problem > suddenly. Rebooting, etc have no effect. > I would appreciate being directly cc: ed on any replies, as I am > subscribed to -questions but not -scsi > thanks I rarely read the freebsd-questions@ list, but you are welcome to email me directly with aac driver questions. See below: > > Hi > > I have an Adaptec 2410SA RAID card with 3 drives attached, 2 in a RAID > 1 array and one as a separate disk. This has been working under > 5.2-RELEASE in my test server for some time now. However, for some > reason the machine locked up (may not be related) and I had to do a > hard reset. > > Now the machine, when it tries to check the two aacd volumes on this > controller, starts printing out this message below every 20 seconds or > so and the disk volumes cannot be used. Each new IO attempt triggers a > new set of these messages. The hex number after the COMMAND word is > different for each new IO request but of course stays the same for > repeated messages relating to the same original IO request > > aac0: COMMAND 0xc551a7e8 TIMEOUT AFTER 147 SECONDS > > I have googled on this and similar posts related to 2120S controllers > all seemed to have different causes and fixes... > I thought that 5.2.1 would have fixed all of this. This isn't good. > Any hints or ideas on what is causing this? I can get into the > controller at POST time and it checks out... Can you boot the machine at all? If so, could I feed you some patches to help diagnose the problem? Scott
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