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Date:      Fri, 28 May 1999 09:31:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      daniel B <danielb@pacex.net>
To:        Rob Secombe <robseco@wizard.teksupport.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: biodone: buffer already done
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990528092851.20409B-100000@almazs.pacex.net>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990528111057.00b26bc0@moat-gw.teksupport.net.au>

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Ok! so you know where to look for trouble from here. If no media errors
then get a spare SCSI controller and do your backups and see if you see
the problem again.

Dan

 On Fri, 28 May 1999, Rob Secombe wrote:

> 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
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
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