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Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org, Dan Langille <dvl@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: SCSI card keeps dumping state
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On 5/14/11 8:18 AM, Dan Langille wrote:
> Usually, my SCSI card runs just fine.  Then, every once in a while, it starts
> dumping state.  I am not sure what starts this.
>
> I have put output from /var/log/messages&  camcontrol at:
>
>    http://www.freebsddiary.org/samples/ahc0.card.dump.txt
>
> At present, the card seems unusable, and is dumping state every 30 minutes.
>
> I'd like to be able to fix this remote system without rebooting it (for fear of it not coming back up).
>
> Thanks.
I'll have to dig in more to be sure, but it looks like a PCI dma of a 
new command
failed, dumping you into error recovery.  Perhaps the card has worked a 
bit loose in the slot?

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Justin