From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 8 19:50:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA20752 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 19:50:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thecore.com (root@guardian.thecore.com [206.136.149.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA20744 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 19:50:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (sfinn@localhost) by thecore.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA05637; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 22:49:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 22:49:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Shaun Finn To: Cayford Burrell cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com, phk@tfs.com Subject: Re: SCSI problems In-Reply-To: <334AFA8A.3010@vicor-nb.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I just upgraded to FreeBSD 2.2.1 on my news server and have been seeing the exact same problem and it is getting very frustrating. I have the Adaptec 2940 running 3 4GB Seagate Hawks on a P5/100. Is anybody working on this problem? On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Cayford Burrell wrote: > Hi there. We're having trouble with SCSI. Need > some help. Console shows "timeout while idle", > with a bunch of variables like SCSI_SIGI, LASTPHASE, > and so on. Very often, the cpu freezes. Sometimes, > the system recovers. I can easily recreate this. > > I heard from Poul-Henning that 2.2 had problems like > this and that they were solved with 2.2.1. Well, > I still have problems. 2.2.1 is better, but under > load (6 processes reading a series of 200k files), it > will crash, after 5-10 minutes, sometimes after 2-3 hours. > > Specifics: P5/133, Adaptec 2940UW, Seek Raid disk > configured as one SCSI target with 39gb, AHC_TAGENABLE > amd AHC_MEMIO. NOT AHC_PAGE_SCB (or whatever turns on > SCB paging). FreeBSD 2.2.1. +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Shaun M. Finn TechnoCore Communications, Inc. | | sfinn@thecore.com P.O. Box 106 | | (908)928-7400 FAX:(908)928-7402 Jackson, NJ 08527-0106 | +------------------- http://www.thecore.com/ ----------------------+