Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 12:05:58 -0500 From: "Eric L. Howard" <ehoward@ameritech.net> To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: jdp@polstra.com Subject: Re: just keep on crashing... Message-ID: <20010224120558.A856@ameritech.net> In-Reply-To: <200102192242.f1JMgB704018@vashon.polstra.com>; from jdp@polstra.com on Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 02:42:11PM -0800 References: <20010214143910.A3906@ameritech.net> <200102192242.f1JMgB704018@vashon.polstra.com>
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At a certain time, now past, John Polstra spake thusly: > In article <20010214143910.A3906@ameritech.net>, > Eric L. Howard <ehoward@ameritech.net> wrote: > > I'm attempting to get 4.2 up on a homebrew. > > > > ASUS P2B-DS mobo w/ onboard aic7xxx > > 2 - Seagate ST39204LW U2 drives > > Dual PIII 700Mhz > > > > I'm almost consistently running into problems when I go to do stuff like cvsup > > or even installing some packages. Seems as if whenever I get into something > > pushing the drives heavy and consistently for any sustained period the machines > > crashes. > > > > Errors include > > SCB 69: Immediate reset > > and > > Invalid pack > [...] > > da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > > da0: <SEAGATE ST39204LW 0002> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device > > da0: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled > > da0: 8750MB (17921835 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1115C) > > da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 > > da1: <SEAGATE ST39204LW 0002> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device > > da1: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled > > da1: 8750MB (17921835 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1115C) > > I could be steering you in the wrong direction, but I believe these > are the Seagate drives that had a firmware bug which could cause the > kinds of symptoms you describe. The work-around is to disable write > cache enable (WCE) on the drives using "camcontrol modepage -e ...". > Sorry, I don't remember the precise incantation, and you can read the > camcontrol man page as well as I can. :-) Try turning off WCE on > these drives and see if it fixes the problem. It can't hurt. > > John It looks like your directions were exactly what was needed. I've not had this problem on any of the machines since disabling WCE. Thanx! ~ELH~ -- E r i c L. H o w a r d e h o w a r d @ a m e r i t e c h . n e t //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "You can't hold a man down without staying down with him." -Booker T. Washington PGP KeyID:0x27586E9B Fingerprint:0BF7 F677 E4F3 E2F1 ACBF F786 754A 8F11 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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