From owner-freebsd-scsi Sat Jul 8 5:24:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from rose.niw.com.au (app3022-2.gw.connect.com.au [203.63.119.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9383037BDCF for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 05:24:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ian@niw.com.au) Received: by rose.niw.com.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B645762F35; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 21:53:57 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 21:53:57 +0930 From: Ian West To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Invalidating pack weirdness Message-ID: <20000708215357.Z24142@rose.niw.com.au> References: <20000708010113.A25571@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000708010113.A25571@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 01:01:13AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message 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: 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) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message