Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:38:59 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de> To: "Thomas P. Holmes [ Systems ]" <tholmes@thebiz.net> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Invalidating Pack Message-ID: <20010712163858.B14384@cicely20.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107101155190.28844-200000@staff.noc.thebiz.net>; from tholmes@thebiz.net on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:02:16PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107101155190.28844-200000@staff.noc.thebiz.net>
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On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:02:16PM -0400, Thomas P. Holmes [ Systems ] wrote:
>
> I'm at my wits end of this one. I have searched and searched and have not
> been able to resolve the issue.
>
> I'm using a segate baracuda scsi with the stock qlogic controller on a
> compaq alpha ds-10. The majority of the time when I do any have writing,
> make emacs this last time, the machine freaks out and gives an error of
> something like:
>
> (isp0.0.0.0) invalidating pack
>
> The things I saw referrred to tagged-queing and what not.
> I've swapped out disk, controller and cable and it still happens. I would
> like to get the Segate working since we have awhole bunch of them.
>
> Any help would be appreciated! I've included a copy of the dmesg.
If your drives firmware is old enough it may have a broken write cache.
You should either disable write caching on the drive or update it's
firmware.
> da0: <SEAGATE ST39216W 0005> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
^^^^ I'm not shure but it looks older than
the fixed version.
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