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Date:      Sat, 16 Sep 2000 00:53:24 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Kelsey Womack" <kelseywomack@home.com>
Cc:        scsi@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Adaptec 21960
Message-ID:  <200009160653.AAA14523@caspian.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <001801c01ee1$6bd8a950$020a0a0a@tjabring>

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In article <001801c01ee1$6bd8a950$020a0a0a@tjabring> you wrote:
> 
> It's odd, I have a 4.1-stable server, in production, never had a prob... and
> we have the 29160.  However, our other 2 machines could never get
> to -stable, and I have been told -stable fixes that.  The company I used to
> work for had about 5 servers with 29160's and the infamous Seagate drives
> taht supposedly case this prob, and I was told to just disable write-back
> caching in the scsi bios.  I had it done, didnt work... I just thought I
> would share this with you.
> 
>     -Kelsey

The issue with the Seagate drives was that they would spontaineously
drop off the bus.  That doesn't sound like what others are reporting,
but then again, its not clear exactly what a "freeze" means.  Is
the system completely unresponsive to anything including an attempt
to drop into the debugger?

--
Justin


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