Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 19:28:29 -0700 (MST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> To: vallo@matti.ee Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: scsi disk (cam?) problems Message-ID: <199811010228.TAA27505@panzer.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <19981101052621.B291@matti.ee> from Vallo Kallaste at "Nov 1, 98 05:26:21 am"
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Vallo Kallaste wrote... > "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> wrote: > > > > Oct 30 10:52:35 FreeBSD /kernel: (da2:ahc0:0:3:0): Invalidating pack > > > Oct 30 10:52:35 FreeBSD /kernel: (da2:ahc0:0:3:0): Invalidating pack > > > > Well, what's happening here is that one of your disks is returning an > > error, and keeps returning that error. Reads and writes in the da driver > > have a retry count of 4. So by the time we print out the message above, > > the command has already been retried four times. We may also have taken a > > number of error recovery actions to try to bring the device back. > > *** > > My machine panicked half a hour ago with same 'Invalidating pack' > messages. BTW, I forget to remove softupdates and I'm running SMP > right now and maybe this was the cause. I'm in the middle of upgrading > my hardware so it may be related. Softupdates and SMP don't have anything to do with the 'Invalidating pack' messages. They're most likely because of some hardware failure. Try booting with -v, and see if you see sense information printed out along with the 'Invalidating pack' message. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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