From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 2 9: 1:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wanlogistics.net (mail.wanlogistics.net [63.209.114.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 588A437B403 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 09:01:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bilver.wjv.com (spdsl-033.wanlogistics.net [63.209.115.33]) by mail.wanlogistics.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA28384 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 12:01:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bill@wjv.com) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.wjv.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f92G15c06762 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 12:01:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bill) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 12:01:04 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with BusLogic (aka Mylex) BT-948 controller Message-ID: <20011002120104.A6687@wjv.com> Reply-To: bv@wjv.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from owner-freebsd-stable-digest@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:33:54AM -0700 Organization: W.J.Vermillion / Orlando - Winter Park Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 12:48:52 -0400 > From: Vivek Khera > Subject: problems with BusLogic (aka Mylex) BT-948 controller > A while back, I had written about repeated kernel warnings of CCB > timeouts on one of my machines. The messages are like these, with > varying hex values: > Sep 30 03:07:18 lorax /kernel: (da0:bt0:0:0:0): CCB 0xc7830040 - timed out > Sep 30 03:07:26 lorax /kernel: (da0:bt0:0:0:0): CCB 0xc7830040 - timed out > Sep 30 03:07:26 lorax /kernel: bt0: No longer in timeout I've seen the same messages. > This card worked flawlessly under BSD/OS, where Buslogic controllers > were the preferred devices. The driver under BSD/OS was extremely > well done. Simply installing FreeBSD on this box resulted in these > errors. > The above errors are repored under a recent kernel/world. > FreeBSD lorax.kciLink.com 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Wed Sep 26 10:06:43 EDT 2001 vivek@lorax.kciLink.com:/usr/obj/u/lorax1/usr/src/sys/LORAX i386 > The dmesg output is below. I've gotten them as far back as 2.x on one machine. > bt0: BT-948 FW Rev. 5.05R Ultra Narrow SCSI Host Adapter, SCSI ID 7, 192 CCBs Run the exact same firmware rev too. I see this on a machine running 3.4-RELEASE and previously - before the move to the current location - this machine was also running on the 2.x. The other machine with the exact same controller, same motherboard, both Pentium era machines, has never had a problem - except that I'm getting some re-allocation errors on the HD - that system is being replaced this week. The difference is the one with the time-outs is running an older IBM XPW series drive, while the one that never fails is running an even old Seagate Barracuda - one of the original 1/2 height [before they went to 1"] drives] and therefore is about 6 years old. I had to reboot the one with the time-outs because of a user screwup >ME< so it's only been up for 243 days. It's running fairly light duty as a mail server with probably 10-15K messages per day. I've always assumed it was related to the controller/drive interaction as the machines are identical down to the motherboard firmware level, except for the HDs. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message