From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Jan 9 9:48:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from weirdo.netcraft.com (unknown [195.92.95.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4827937B6D5 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:47:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sketchy@localhost) by weirdo.netcraft.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f09HkOj02827; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:46:24 GMT (envelope-from sketchy) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:46:24 +0000 From: Jonathan Perkin To: Matthew Jacob Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Aborted commands and parity errors Message-ID: <20010109174624.G2152@netcraft.com> References: <20010109113131.B1688@netcraft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mjacob@feral.com on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:35:18am -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/i386 4.2-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:35:18am -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > It's either a bad cable or something that is corrupting data. Be thankful > parity caught it. > > When was the last time you power cycled things? Sometimes a resetting > termpwr fuse gets frotzed and termpwr stops being supplied by the drive > that's supplying it, thus nullifying termination. 5:42PM up 53 days, 1:39, 3 users, load averages: 0.18, 0.48, 0.93 > It's also true, tho rare, that traces just sometimes go on drive or PC > motherboards. Does your system and/or drives run hot? Justin's earlier suggestions fit quite close - the room has been quite hot recently, so I put a fan in there, which is balanced on top of this very SCSI enclosure :) It does vibrate quite a bit, so I guess it could have shaken the cable slightly loose or something. > Try a powercycle. Let it cool down. Then boot up again and see. It always > could be s/w but in this case I doubt it. Yes, I intend to. Many thanks. -- Jonathan Perkin +44 (0)1225 867914 Netcraft Ltd, Bradford on Avon, UK - http://www.netcraft.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message