From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Oct 12 5: 5:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7424337B66C for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 05:05:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (at relayer david.siemens.de) Received: from mail1.siemens.de (mail1.siemens.de [139.23.33.14]) by david.siemens.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9CC5OB01283; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 14:05:24 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (curry.mchp.siemens.de [139.25.42.7]) by mail1.siemens.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9CC5OH22527; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 14:05:24 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9CC5OJ47352; Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 14:05:23 +0200 From: Andre Albsmeier To: dbhague@allstor-sw.co.uk Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stressed SCSI subsystem locks up the system Message-ID: <20001012140523.A5526@curry.mchp.siemens.de> References: <80256976.0032668C.00@mail.plasmon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <80256976.0032668C.00@mail.plasmon.co.uk>; from dbhague@allstor-sw.co.uk on Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 10:10:29AM +0100 X-Echelon: BND CIA NSA Mossad KGB MI6 IRA detonator nuclear assault strike Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 12-Oct-2000 at 10:10:29 +0100, dbhague@allstor-sw.co.uk wrote: > Tom, > > Thanks for the response. > > We are currently using 3.0 but have been planning to upgrade for some time so > moving to 4.1 is not an issue. > We currently have 4.1 binary from the FreeBSD ftp site. We will build from > source as you suggested and repeat our test. > > For your information we are a small software company, just south of Cambridge > UK, and have a thin server that is running FreeBSD. We are developing a storage > system which controls a RAID system and automatically archives the data to > optical jukeboxes or tape libraries. Basically HSM in a box. > > The system is as follows: > Single board computer, AMD K6-II, > 128MB RAM, > Adaptec AHA 3940AU > Intel Ethernet Pro 100 > > This is attached to a RAID system although we have had the same failure with a > single SCSI drive. > I enclose the test script and the source for the main test program. tmcp.c. > The test is started with "golongmulti 7" Justin, this sounds a bit like my problem: 3940AU, heavily used, no console messages but hanging... I will try Dave's test software as soon as I can swap the two 2940 for the 3940 without my users ripping my head off... -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message