Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 22:11:59 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Simon" <simon@optinet.com> Cc: "freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: What happened? Message-ID: <200008080511.WAA08928@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Aug 2000 00:51:22 EDT." <200008081216.GAA50805@mail.fpsn.net>
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> I tried to duplicate the same problem and sure enough i was able to. What's going on here? bad drive? strongly doubt it, > it's pretty much a new beast. Could it be tar that's screwing things up? Can you give us the probe messages for da0? There are firmware issues with new Seagate drives that will require you to get an upgrade from Seagate. > -Simon > > On Tue, 08 Aug 2000 00:33:49 -0400, Simon wrote: > > >Hi all: > > > >I was untaring a large tar file with many files in it and suddenly my Seagate SCSI harddrive froze. This showed up on my > >console: > > > >(da0:ahc0:0:0:0) Invalid pack > >(da0:ahc0:0:0:0) Invalid pack > >(da0:ahc0:0:0:0) SCB 0x23 - timed out while idle, SEQADDR == 0xc > >(da0:ahc0:0:0:0) Queing a BDR SCB > >(da0:ahc0:0:0:0) no longer in timeout, status = 34a > >(da0:ahc0:0:0:0) Invalid pack > >(da0:ahc0:0:0:0) Invalid pack > >(da0:ahc0:0:0:0) Invalid pack > >... > > > >What happened here? It screwed up my /usr partition where I was untaring the files (good thing fsck could restore it). I > >can't afford to have a drive stole like this and corrupt filesystems when I put this box online. What could've caused this > >failure? I'm running freebsd 4.1-Release. Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > > >Thanks, > >Simon > > > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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