From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 14 10: 0:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F77837B718; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:00:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.xtalwind.net [127.0.0.1]) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f2EI0Da53997; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:00:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:00:13 -0500 (EST) From: jack To: Andrew Reilly Cc: Jordan Hubbard , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, gibbs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uh oh. Looks like something broke with the AHC driver.. In-Reply-To: <20010314223403.A56449@gurney.reilly.home> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Today Andrew Reilly wrote: > Here's a possible "me too". I haven't reported this before > because (a) da2 is my backup Fujitsu MO drive, and it does do > odd things occasionally, and (b) the backup disk is currently > full and I haven't thrown the requisite round-tuit at it. > > If this actually represents a problem, and I can help with > debugging it, please just say what you need... > > Following are a chunk of kernel messages from /var/log/messages > and the contents of /var/run/dmesg.boot. The system is: > > FreeBSD gurney.reilly.home 4.3-BETA FreeBSD 4.3-BETA #7: Sun Mar 11 13:38:49 EST 2001 root@gurney.reilly.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GURNEY i386 > > Mar 14 03:11:24 gurney /kernel: (da2:ahc0:0:6:0): SCB 0x3 - timed out while idle, SEQADDR == 0x7 I've been seeing what Andrew reported on two different boxes for quite some time. It is always the same drive in each box, which if I disconnect this goes away. I'm taking this as a warning that, as I already suspected, those drives are on their last legs so it is actually a nice `feature'; don't put anything on this drive that you aren't willing to loose. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer is to computing what a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message