From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Sep 3 15: 2:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9A6014BF5 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 15:02:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA17010; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 16:01:39 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Message-Id: <199909032201.QAA17010@panzer.kdm.org> Subject: Re: Question about SCSI error messages.... In-Reply-To: from Julian Elischer at "Sep 3, 1999 01:54:53 pm" To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 16:01:39 -0600 (MDT) Cc: admin@sunflower.com (Erik Lindsley), freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Kenneth D. Merry" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Julian Elischer wrote... > You say you are running 2.2 but you have 'da' devices.. > > hmm It is possible for him to be running a 2.2 release with CAM in it. We released a number of sets of CAM patches against the 2.2 tree before 3.0 came out last year. > anyhow it does sound like a disk (da3 seems the likely candidate) goues > out to lunch occasionally. I presume you've checked all the terminators > etc? I think in this case it's cabling or termination. (Timed out in {datain,dataout,command} phase errors generally indicate cabling or termination problems. Timed out while idle problems are most frequently drive firmware problems, but can just indicate that a timeout is set too short, or that there's some other problem.) > On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Erik Lindsley wrote: > > > Greetings, > > I apologize for the newbie-type question, but I have recently > > "inherited" a BSD system and lately I have been seeing some unexpected > > errors in the system log files that seem to imply that something in my > > SCSI disk sysystem is starting to fail. I have attached a copy of the > > errors to the end of this email. Gradually I have been seeing more and > > more of these messages, and so I was wondering if this is something to > > worry about, or if this is within normal operating parameters. > > > > The system is running a news server, so disk usage is quite high, but > > this is the only thing on the box. I am running FreeBSD 2.2-980705-SNAP > > > > Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Sincerely, > > Erik Lindsley > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message > > Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message