Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:50:09 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Tom Wadlow <wadlow@pilot.net> Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A problem with SCSI Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9812111149270.1719-100000@feral-gw> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9812111048430.6334-100000@arrow.pilot.net>
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Any other messages when it crashed? The 'tagged openings' message is just the process of throttling down the # of cmds outstanding per device.. On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Tom Wadlow wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:07:29 -0700 (MST) > > From: Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com> > > Subject: Re: A problem with SCSI > > > > > occasionally, the da driver says: "Invalidating pack", and drops > > > the disk offline and everything hangs. This is unfortunate. > > > > Certainly is. What kind of hardware are you using (SCSI controller, > > devices on the bus, CPU, etc.)? > > I've built out several systems from 3.0-RELEASE that all seeem to manifest this problem. > Two die on a regular basis. The third gets strange messsages but seems to stay up. > > Machines dying with "Invalidating pack" > A) Pentium 100MHz > 64MB RAM > BusLogic 496 SCSI controller > 4GB Connor SCSI (only device on the SCSI chain) > Ethernet > Floppy > > B) Pentium 120MHz > 96MB RAM > BusLogic 496 SCSI controller > 1GB Connor SCSI (only device on the SCSI chain) > Ethernet > Floppy > > Machine with strange messages: > Pentium II 330 MHz > 128MB RAM > HP SCSI CDROM > Seagate 4GB SCSI (boot device) > Seagate 9GB SCSI > Ethernet > > The strange messages this machine is getting look like this: > > (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): tagged openings now 64 > (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): tagged openings now 63 > (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 64 > (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 63 > (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 62 > (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 61 > (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 60 > (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 59 > (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 58 > (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 57 > (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 56 > (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 55 > (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 54 > (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 53 > (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 52 > (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 51 > (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 50 > (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 49 > > but it hasn't crashed yet. Which is good, as this is my primary workstation. > > Machine B above has been updated to 3.0-CURRENT (as of last night), but still exhibits the > problem. All are running the GENERIC kernel. > > --Tom > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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