From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 7 13:47:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 201C737B401; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:47:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic.adaptec.com [208.236.45.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6A8C43E4A; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:47:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gibbs@scsiguy.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11] (may be forged)) by magic.adaptec.com (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g97KlPw15193; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:47:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from btc.btc.adaptec.com (btc.btc.adaptec.com [10.100.0.52]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03555; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:47:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.100.253.70] (aslan [10.100.253.70]) by btc.btc.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA12064; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:47:20 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 14:47:21 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Reply-To: "Justin T. Gibbs" To: Long Le , freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with aic7892 in 4.5-Release Message-ID: <46890000.1034023641@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.0a4 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi all, > > When there are some intensive accesses to the hard drive, my machine > would stall for a few minutes. After that, there are some messages > on the console. I have an Adaptec SCSI controller and IBM hard drives. > > I posted a message on freebsd-scsi a few months ago and received > suggestions that this might be a cable/termination problem. Meanwhile, > I have been seeing this problem on two machines and 8 hard drives. > I had hardware technicians do all the hardware checks and everything > checked fine. > > Any help or suggestion would be very much apprecitated. > Please kindly cc' your reply to me since I'm not on the list. What the messages are basically saying is that your drives are not completing certain commands that we have issued to them. There were certainly some issues with certain DDYS drive firmware versions that could cause these types of symptoms. One thing that might help you is to lower the tag depth to your drives using the camcontrol utility. Can you also post the drive information from an invocation of "dmesg" on this system? -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message