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Date:      Wed, 07 Feb 1996 15:23:39 -0800
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
To:        Fred Gilham <gilham@csl.sri.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I can crash freebsd-stable reliably 
Message-ID:  <199602072323.PAA06814@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Feb 1996 13:25:37 PST." <199602072125.NAA01716@lily.csl.sri.com> 

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>I can reliably crash the system by doing dumps of the two seagate
>drives at the same time.  It takes less than five minutes to do this.
>
>The symptoms are that the activity light on the system goes hard on as
>well as the light on one of the disk drives.  Also, the console
>message starts repeatedly reporting
>
>ahc0: target 2 lun 0 (sd2) timed out
>
>After that the whole disk subsystem seems to go south.
>
>I've tried using the scsi-select utility to change the speed of the
>scsi bus to 5mb/sec, but that doesn't cure the problem.

This sounds very much like a cableing or termination problem.

Are you using internal or external periferals?
Are you using active termination?
How long are your cables?

>-Fred Gilham   gilham@csl.sri.com

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Justin T. Gibbs
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