From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 10 20:01:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA09204 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 20:01:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from atropos.c2.org (atropos.c2.org [140.174.185.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA09196 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 20:01:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sameer@localhost) by atropos.c2.org (8.7.4/CSUA) id UAA21939 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 20:01:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199607110301.UAA21939@atropos.c2.org> Subject: Adaptec 3940W and kernel panics To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 20:01:26 -0700 (PDT) From: sameer X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We've recently added a 3940W and some wide disks to our newsserver, and it has been panicking and trashing the disks on that controller about every two days since the disks were installed. Our kernel boot says: [. . .] Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: chip0 rev 1 on pci0:0 chip1 rev 2 on pci0:7 de0 rev 17 int a irq 12 on pci0:9 de0: DC21140 [10-100Mb/s] pass 1.1 Ethernet address 00:00:c0:86:f7:9d de0: enabling 10baseT UTP port ahc0 rev 3 int a irq 10 on pci0:10 ahc0: aic7870 Single Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs ahc0 waiting for scsi devices to settle (ahc0:0:0): "SEAGATE ST51080N 0943" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 1030MB (2109840 512 byte sectors) chip2 rev 2 on pci0:11 Probing for devices on PCI bus 1: ahc1 rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci1:4 ahc1: aic7880 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 255 SCBs ahc1 waiting for scsi devices to settle (ahc1:1:0): "Quantum XP34300W 81HB" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd1(ahc1:1:0): Direct-Access 4101MB (8399520 512 byte sectors) ahc2 rev 0 int a irq 10 on pci1:5 ahc2: aic7880 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 255 SCBs ahc2 waiting for scsi devices to settle (ahc2:1:0): "Quantum XP34300W 81HB" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd2(ahc2:1:0): Direct-Access 4101MB (8399520 512 byte sectors) Probing for devices on the ISA bus: [. . .] The appropriate area of the kernel config file says: controller ncr0 options "SCSI_NCR_MAX_TAGS=0" #for that HP C3725 # ahc: Adaptec 274x/284x/294x, always: controller ahc0 #controller ahc1 at isa? bio irq ? vector ahcintr #form after 1/5/96 controller ahc1 controller ahc2 controller scbus0 device ch0 #SCSI media changers device sd0 #SCSI disks device st0 #SCSI tapes device cd0 #SCSI CD-ROMs We're running 2.1-STABLE. Any ideas? Thanks. -- Sameer Parekh Voice: 510-986-8770 Community ConneXion, Inc. FAX: 510-986-8777 The Internet Privacy Provider http://www.c2.net/ sameer@c2.net