From owner-freebsd-isp Fri May 28 9:31:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from almazs.pacex.net (almazs.pacex.net [204.1.219.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BF221551E for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 09:31:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danielb@almazs.pacex.net) Received: from localhost (danielb@localhost) by almazs.pacex.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id JAA20481; Fri, 28 May 1999 09:31:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 09:31:01 -0700 (PDT) From: daniel B To: Rob Secombe Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: biodone: buffer already done In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990528111057.00b26bc0@moat-gw.teksupport.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > >> > >> > >> > >> 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message