From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Dec 13 18:35:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA15179 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 18:35:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail-oak-1.pilot.net (mail-oak-1.pilot.net [198.232.147.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA15174 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 18:35:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wadlow@pilot.net) Received: from corsair.pilot.net (corsair.pilot.net [204.48.17.12]) by mail-oak-1.pilot.net with ESMTP id SAA02550; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 18:35:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from arrow.pilot.net (arrow.pilot.net [204.48.17.29]) by corsair.pilot.net with ESMTP id SAA13289; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 18:35:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (wadlow@localhost) by arrow.pilot.net (arrow) with ESMTP id SAA20727; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 18:35:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 18:35:08 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Wadlow To: "Justin T. Gibbs" cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A problem with SCSI In-Reply-To: <199812121704.KAA05364@pluto.plutotech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Just FYI, I've loaded the 3.0-19981211-SNAP and thus far (a bit more than a day), things seem to be stable. The RELEASE version wouldn't stay up for more than a few hours. This one hasn't crashed yet, but time will tell.... --Tom On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 09:57:14 -0700 > From: Justin T. Gibbs > To: Tom Wadlow > Cc: Justin T. Gibbs , scsi@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: A problem with SCSI > > >I've built out several systems from 3.0-RELEASE that all seeem to manifest thi > >s problem. > >Two die on a regular basis. The third gets strange messsages but seems to sta > >y up. > > > >Machines dying with "Invalidating pack" > > A) Pentium 100MHz > > 64MB RAM > > BusLogic 496 SCSI controller > > 4GB Connor SCSI (only device on the SCSI chain) > > Ethernet > > Floppy > > This is most likely a bad interaction between your buslogic 946 and the > Connor drives. Can you mail me the dmesg output from your machine just > after boot? > > There have been several bug fixes to the Buslogic driver since 3.0R. Your > problem may be solved by running a more recent SNAPSHOT or using CVSup > to pull -current. > > -- > Justin > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message