Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 13:41:08 -0700 From: "Randy A. Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com> To: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@federation.addy.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI bus timeouts Message-ID: <33A6F664.5F8D582F@ccsales.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970617160007.17823A-100000@federation.addy.com>
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Guess what? I setup a very minimal machine on my network (P75,16MB RAM, Ample SCSI-2 Hard Drive Space) with a DAT drive and Freebsd 2.1.0...rock solid. ...backs up some urgently important files never would want to take them off tape anyway types (too slow) every morning at arount 1:39 am through a temporary mount to the other machines. ...It also dumps to tape the other machines at around 2:30 am. Works like a charm, is fast, stable, inexpensive (not cheap, good motherboard, Adaptec 2940, nice old hard drives but good). Hope this helps though it's NOT a soLuTion. Randy Katz Cliff Addy wrote: > > What has happened to my lovely little FreeBSD systems? They used to be so > stable, so rock-solid reliable. Now they don't even stay up a day > anymore. > > What happened? I "upgraded" them to 2.2, since then my life has been > hell. I thought 2.2.2 was going to fix the problem with lockups during > tape backups. But the newest system, running the latest code off the ftp > site, just died with that same "SCSI bus timed out" error message. > > This was not a "heavily loaded" system, it was brand new and doing > *nothing* but a backup. On our systems, about 35% of our backups to tape > lock up the machine with the bus timeouts. > > Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this? We're running the same > hardware that stayed up for weeks at a time under 2.1.5, Cyrix 6x86, 64MB, > Adaptec 2940UW, Seagate HDD and DAT.
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