From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 22 22:49:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA12897 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:49:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA12877 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:49:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA08004; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:49:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:49:10 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Sean T. Lamont .lost." cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI disk chain pausing? In-Reply-To: <199712180034.QAA27914@itchy.serv.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Sean T. Lamont .lost. wrote: > > Has anyone seen this before? I had this happen in an earlier version of this > system ; disks go grind, grind, grind. then stop. Iostat shows 0 tps for > two or three seconds, then everything comes back to life. This happened > when I added a fourth disk to an adaptec 2940UW controller. this is version > 2.2.5, fyi. > > It almost seems like there's so much I/O on the bus that all of the disks > freak out or something. > > Has anyone seen this before? Any log messages? Check your cables and termination. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major