Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 18:58:40 -0500 (CDT) From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org> To: aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG, garbanzo@hooked.net Subject: Re: More timeout problems :( Message-ID: <199709142358.SAA01272@iworks.InterWorks.org>
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> I just recently was doing some fairly disk intensive work (rebuilding the > man pages, building kde, and just finished running make clean on > /usr/src, and closing a mailbox in Pine), when Pine alerted me to a disk > error, so I switched over to ttyv0 to see screenfulls of sd0 timeout.. sd0 > no longer timedout... sd0 timedout while recovering.. then sd1, then sd0 > again, etc, etc. I'm running FreeBSD current sources were just > cvsup'd last night, kernel is about a week old. This is the first time > I've ever had probelems with my disks (two Quantum narrow, one ultra, one > fast scsi on an aic-7880). The longest the system has been up was 21 > days, no problems at all then. After about twenty minutes, things started > to want to use the disk, so the swapper faulted, and just about everything > besides pine that wanted to write to the disk segfaulted. I went into the > kernel debugger, and panic'd the kernel. Going into the SCSI Select > "program" and disabling WIDE negotation worked, probing the scsi bus froze > the computer. Power cycle followed. I do have SCB paging, tagged > queuing, and memio enabled. My question is this, is there any > way to prevent this from happening again (luckily this time I didn't loose > any data), if not how much does an NCR/Symbios 810 cost? What kind of Quantum drives do you have? You didn't notice any QUEUE_FULL messages? How's your bus terminated? Dan Eischen deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org
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