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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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B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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