From owner-freebsd-isp Thu May 27 18:11:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from moat.teksupport.net.au (moat.teksupport.net.au [203.17.1.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5DF414E3D for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 18:11:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robseco@wizard.teksupport.net.au) Received: from magician.teksupport.net.au (magician.teksupport.net.au [192.168.1.2]) by moat.teksupport.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA14855 for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 11:10:58 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from robseco@wizard.teksupport.net.au) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990528111057.00b26bc0@moat-gw.teksupport.net.au> X-Sender: robseco@moat-gw.teksupport.net.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 11:10:57 +1000 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: Rob Secombe Subject: Re: biodone: buffer already done In-Reply-To: References: <006401bea856$008f55c0$03451acb@teksupport.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Dan, Yeah, it would have been backing up SCSI --> SCSI DAT Tape at the time that it fell over. No sign of media errors in the logs though. Cheers Rob. At 16:52 27-05-99 -0700, you wrote: >I am not a kernel guru but I had exactly the same problem!! >It happened to me when my SCSI controller card was about to hickup and >during automatic backup session (high data transfers) my disk would >freeze-up (red LED on all the time) and I would see the error message: > >/kernel biodone: buffer already done > >but my machine did not auto reboot. >The problem is mostlikely in your SCSI host adopter (if you are using one >and you get a SCSI timeout error message as well) >Or your disk has some bad sectors and is about to give up >Consider yourself lucky and do a backup!! >I had to replace my SCSI controller and the disk as well which was >degraded by the controller problem. > > >Dan > >On Fri, 28 May 1999, Rob Secombe wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> We just had one of our servers spontaneously reboot. This machine is >> running FreeBSD 2.1.7 RELEASE and has been running flawlessly for 2 years, >> up until now. The last entry in the syslog prior to reboot was: >> >> /kernel biodone: buffer already done >> >> Could one of you kernel gurus please tell me what this means and is there >> something I can do to prevent it happening again. >> >> Thanks >> >> Rob Secombe >> Teksupport Pty. Ltd. >> Melbourne Australia >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message >> > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message