Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 11:08:07 +0800 (PHT) From: "Francis Percival C. Favoreal" <dune@cats.edu.ph> To: daniel B <danielb@pacex.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI problem (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990417110617.11533A-100000@mayon.cats.edu.ph> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990417083222.6680B-100000@mayon.cats.edu.ph>
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On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Francis Percival C. Favoreal wrote: > > > On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, daniel B wrote: > > > First it is a good idea you subscribe to this list if you are running > > FreeBSD in ISP environment, I have gotten some realy good advices here. > > Actually, I am currently. This was my email to freebsd-questions > originally and then I forwarded it here =) > > > Second: I had a similar problem a few days ago. My SCSI bus was hungup due > > to a bad controller card BT958 which was crapping out during high data > > transfers and finaly failed to boot up and detect the SCSI BIOS and all > > devices attached to the SCSI bus. My disk also went silent. > > My remedy was to try another SCSI controller card ( buy one from a store > > that has a return policy) My disk did bootup with onother > > SCSI controller but had to replace it because it was damaged by the bad > > controller card. If this does not work try replacing the disk. > > What I did was to replace the disk. The new disk happened to be the same > model as the former. It's now working with no problems. I came to a > conclusion that the former disk itself had problems, maybe bad sectors > because I kept on seeing this, > > (da0:ncr0:0:0): Invalidating pack > > also > > vm_*something*: read error > *something* : MEDIUM ERROR *something* > > Then afterwards, the disk goes silent and my FreeBSD hangs up of course > since the disk is no longer running. > > > If your SCSI controller does not scan the SCSI BIOS during bootup you have > > a bad Controller! If controller bootsup OK and does not detect SCSI > > devices you check for termination cable length e.t.c > > Did you replace/change anything in the SCSI chain lately? > > > > Actually, the SCSI controller is already builtin to the motherboard, a > T440BX server board. Currently, the FreeBSD box just have one SCSI disk. > > > the Error ncr:0:0:0 refers to the SCSi controller itself > > I spoke to soon =) I'm encountering the same problem again. I guess that just wraps it up. I'll gonna try a different controller. -- riko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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