Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 09:31:24 -0500 (EST) From: steve hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: David Greenman <davidg@root.com> Cc: Jason Wright <jason@oozoo.vnet.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reboots (SCSI) Message-ID: <Pine.SCO.3.91.951219093000.27485L-100000@buffnet3.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <199512190500.VAA03007@corbin.Root.COM>
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On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, David Greenman wrote: > >I've have been experiencing uptimes anywhere from 3 days to 4 hours (not > >too good, eh?) > > > >I've enclosed all of the messages prior to each reboot (today!). By > >just the looks of the first two, I'd guess that sd2 was flaking out > >(it's well ventilated, I've heard the horror stories about Baracuda drives). > >But, the third appears to be related to sd3. After each there were some >messages about syncing the disks and 'automagic reboot in 15 seconds...'. > > This is caused by bugs in the aha2940 driver. Justin Gibbs (the author of > the driver) has been working on a fix for the problem. I'm able to reproduce > the problem here fairly easily (I can make it happen within a minute or two > with 7 4.3GB Quantum Grand Prix drives). Hopefully we'll have a fix for you > soon. > > -DG I had occational problems too with 4 scsi drives - this stopped when I enabled MFS (I used the bootmfs instead of GENERIC) You might give it a try. ------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Hovey -- shovey@buffnet.net root@buffnet.net
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