Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 20:50:07 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: andrew@pubnix.net Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: News server disk Striping (more) Message-ID: <199611240250.UAA12755@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961123211959.6459H-100000@guardian.fortress.org> from "Andrew Webster" at Nov 23, 96 09:21:16 pm
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> I had posted this about a week ago, but no suggestions, I did notice > however that when it locks up a drive and SCSI controller both have their > activity lights lit. > > Bugs in the SCSI code under heavy load? > > The hardware consists of a pair of 2.1 ST32151W drives on an AHA-2940UW > controller. I have (very!) intermittently seen the same thing happen with ST-31055N's and NCR-810 controllers - the drive appears to "wedge". The machine in question is certainly under heavy load, and seems to develop stuck drive syndrome about once a month. Since the 31055N and 32151W's are cousins, and the NCR-810 and AHA-2940UW are totally different drivers (at least pre-2.2), this tends to confirm my suspicion that this may be some sort of obscure drive firmware bug. An additional data point may be that I have _only_ seen this on heterogeneous drive chains; i.e. I have not seen a 31055N that is on a chain with a 32550N and 15150N lock up. The lock ups only seem to happen on a homogeneous drive chain. (Sample set is three dozen drives, soon two dozen more). I think it is some low level SCSI drive bogon, probably not (strictly) a FreeBSDism. It may be possible that FreeBSD could "work around" this with some sort of timeout and recovery strategy that may not currently exist. ... JGhome | help
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