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Date:      Thu, 9 Mar 2000 14:11:37 +0000
From:      =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Monteiro?= <jm@sindigit.pt>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   ahc0 errors
Message-ID:  <20000309141136.A23000@sindigit.pt>

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i've been experiencing several problems with an adaptec 2940u2w.

the disk and controller are detected as:

ahc0: <Adaptec 2940 Ultra2 SCSI adapter> rev 0x00 int a irq 11 on pci0.17.0
ahc0: aic7890/91 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs
da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0
da1: <QUANTUM ATLAS IV 9 WLS 0A0A> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device 
da1: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
da1: 8761MB (17942584 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1116C)

the kernel messages invariably are:

proxy /kernel: ahc0: Data Parity Error Detected during address or write data phase
proxy /kernel: ahc0: Received a Master Abort
proxy /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 0x20409, blkno: 7488, size: 4096
proxy /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 0x20409, blkno: 7488, size: 4096
proxy /kernel: (da1:ahc0:0:3:0): SCB 0x1d - timed out in dataout phase, SEQADDR == 0x5d
proxy /kernel: (da1:ahc0:0:3:0): BDR message in message buffer
proxy /kernel: (da1:ahc0:0:3:0): no longer in timeout, status = 353
proxy /kernel: Unexpected busfree.  LASTPHASE == 0xa0
proxy /kernel: SEQADDR == 0x163

i already tried:

- added extra fan near the drive
- shortened the cable distance between the disk and the controller,
  trying to avoid near sources of elecromagnetic interference
- lowered the transfer rate on the u2w bus to 40 and 20MB/s
- connected the disk to the uw bus and forced the bus termination on the
  disk itself

my crash test has been cp'ing a 200M file to another dir in the same
filesystem, although these errors usually appear randomly a couple of times per
hour.

i would like to have a definitive opinion about this before turning to
the hardware supplier.

tia,

-- 
jose monteiro


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