From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 24 15:29:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA03137 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 15:29:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zigg.com (gr-max8-111.iserv.net [206.114.38.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA03128 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 15:28:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by zigg.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA17436 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 18:29:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 18:29:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Behrens To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with SCSI CD's and "skip" messages Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have the following problem. I have a PCI SCSI Controller using the NCR driver to drive seven double-speed CD-ROM drives. Due to dust on the lens or something, sometimes the kernel reports skips, like so: Sep 24 16:00:16 server /kernel: ncr0: timeout ccb=f066d000 (skip) My problem with this is that after a few of these messags, the machine suddenly decides it can't do ANY disk I/O, the main hard disk on an IDE controller included. This presents a problem since files that are used all over the network are stored on that IDE drive, resulting in timeouts galore. Why would timeouts on a SCSI controller stop the IDE drive? The SCSI is on a physically different controller. (IDE is built-iin to the motherboard). Is there anything I can do? I'm using 2.2.2-RELEASE on this machine (am thinking about 2.2-STABLE RSN...) Matt Behrens | matt@zigg.com MST3K #85995 | http://www.zigg.com/