From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Jul 12 7:38:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C264A37B403 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 07:38:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ticso@mail.cicely.de) Received: from mail.cicely.de (cicely20 [10.1.1.22]) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f6CEcAV61485; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:38:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by mail.cicely.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f6CEd0015134; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:39:00 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:38:59 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: "Thomas P. Holmes [ Systems ]" Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Invalidating Pack Message-ID: <20010712163858.B14384@cicely20.cicely.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from tholmes@thebiz.net on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:02:16PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device ^^^^ I'm not shure but it looks older than the fixed version. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message