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Date:      Sat, 8 Jul 2000 21:53:57 +0930
From:      Ian West <ian@niw.com.au>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Invalidating pack weirdness
Message-ID:  <20000708215357.Z24142@rose.niw.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20000708010113.A25571@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 01:01:13AM -0700
References:  <20000708010113.A25571@fw.wintelcom.net>

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On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 01:01:13AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> Someone just tossed me an email saying they're getting the dreaded
> "Invalidating pack" kernel messages followed by:
> 
> "Device not configured"
> 
> errors from 'cp'
> 
> Doing a search of the lists turns up a bunch of people having these
> problems, but no solution/fix posted.
> 
> Does anyone know if this is most likely coming from:
> 
> 1) driver problem
> 2) hardware misconfig
> 3) hardware problem
> 
> thanks,
> -Alfred
> 
> 
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I spoke to Seagate, and they recommend disabling write caching on their
drives for FreeBSD and Novell systems as this is a known 'feature'. I
have done this to my system, (which was seeing these messages) and since
then it has performed perfectly (ran make -j12 world in a loop for a
full week, previously it lasted less than one full make world)

Hardware is an aha29260 with 2 *
da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <SEAGATE ST318404LW 0002> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
da0: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
da0: 17501MB (35843670 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2231C)



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