From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 14 16:30:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C6A137B401 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 16:30:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (frogmorton.shire.net [204.228.145.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1963F43E75 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 16:30:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [204.228.145.130] (helo=lime.objectwerks.com) by hobbiton.shire.net with asmtp (Exim 3.36 #9) id 181EfP-0000cY-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:30:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:31:22 -0400 Subject: Re: "asr0: Blink LED 0x3 resetting adapter" adaptec 2100S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <0C6E2E86-DFCD-11D6-8FEC-0003931BED80@shire.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, October 14, 2002, at 01:59 , Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC=20 wrote: > Hi > > I run an adadptec 2100S. Today it displayed the following message, = and=20 > while the system was still "running" and pingable, you couldn't do=20 > anything include login. > > "asr0: Blink LED 0x3 resetting adapter" It happened again, this time 0x68 in the message. The machine is=20 running but the adapter resets itself and seems to go offline. =20 Rebooting gets it going again for a few hours. Adaptec tech support=20 thought maybe a bad cache memory module or something. They didn't find=20= a 0x68 for blink codes listed in their manuals. I will be trying some other memory... Chad > > Resetting the machine and going into the onboard ROM SMOR adaptec=20 > manager on the card, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. All of the=20= > disks and volumes were "optimal" and no errors were reported on card. > > I looked through both the mailist archives, in the adaptec manuals, =20= > and the adaptec site to see if there was any sort of similar message=20= > listed, but I found no info. Anyone know what this means? I looked = at=20 > the list of LEDs, wondering if 0x3 meant LED #3, but that does not =20 > make sense, as that is > > "3 Indicates the controller=92s internal operating system is in its = idle > loop." > > Thanks for any help. I have had some random freezeups on the machine,=20= > off an on, most recently an hour or two before this adapter reset=20 > happened, and I was wondering if they are related. > > BY random freezeups, I mean hard freeze on the machine. I had one = this=20 > morning, two weeks ago, and 99 days before that. > > But this message about the reset adapter did not hard freeze the=20 > machine. I just think they might be related, like maybe the RAM=20= > module on the adapter is flaky or something. > > Thanks > Chad > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message