From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 3 17:56:52 2005 Return-Path: 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 34F3116A56D for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:56:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms1.usu.edu (ms1.usu.edu [129.123.104.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 860D843D45 for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:56:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hal@cc.usu.edu) Received: from [129.123.104.140] (buffy.ncs.usu.edu [129.123.104.140]) by ms1.usu.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j03Hulqp019642 for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:56:47 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: hal Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:56:47 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-USU-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-USU-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: hal@cc.usu.edu Subject: FreeBSD vs. SCSI tape drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:56:52 -0000 I have a backup server: OS freeBSD 4.7 P25 SuperMicro X5DP8-G2 mother board Symbios 875 SCSI controller with 1 Exabyte VXA-1 tape drive on channel 0 Adaptec 3960D SCSI controller with 2 Seagate ST39173LW disk drives on Channel 0 with 1 Dell Ultrium 2 tape drive on channel 1 2 3ware raid controllers with 2 mirror sets each The problem: About 50% of the time dump crashes writing to the Ultrium tape drive. See the output of dmesg and /var/log/messages below. A look at the tape drive's onboard error log shows nothing. The tape drive diagnostics show no problems. Can anyone offer a solution/insight/sympathy? If you need more info please ask. hal ############ output of dmseg ############################################### Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p25 #1: Fri Dec 10 13:55:55 MST 2004 root@jack.ss.usu.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/JACK Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium 4 (2799.22-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf29 Stepping = 9 Features=0xbfebfbff,ACC,> real memory = 2146959360 (2096640K bytes) config> q avail memory = 2088710144 (2039756K bytes) Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #0 IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0 Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #1 Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #2 Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #3 Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #4 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 0, version: 0x00050014, at 0xfee00000 cpu1 (AP): apic id: 6, version: 0x00050014, at 0xfee00000 cpu2 (AP): apic id: 1, version: 0x00050014, at 0xfee00000 cpu3 (AP): apic id: 7, version: 0x00050014, at 0xfee00000 io0 (APIC): apic id: 2, version: 0x00178020, at 0xfec00000 io1 (APIC): apic id: 3, version: 0x00178020, at 0xfec80000 io2 (APIC): apic id: 4, version: 0x00178020, at 0xfec80400 io3 (APIC): apic id: 5, version: 0x00178020, at 0xfec81000 io4 (APIC): apic id: 8, version: 0x00178020, at 0xfec81400 Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc02f8000. Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc02f809c. Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled Using $PIR table, 29 entries at 0xc00fddf0 npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard IOAPIC #0 intpin 16 -> irq 2 IOAPIC #0 intpin 19 -> irq 10 IOAPIC #0 intpin 18 -> irq 11 pci0: on pcib0 pci0: (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2541) at 0.1 pcib1: at device 2.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 pci1: (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x1461) at 28.0 pcib2: at device 29.0 on pci1 IOAPIC #2 intpin 0 -> irq 16 IOAPIC #2 intpin 1 -> irq 17 pci2: on pcib2 ahc0: port 0x3000-0x30ff mem 0xfb200000-0xfb200fff irq 16 at device 1.0 on pci2 aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs ahc1: port 0x3400-0x34ff mem 0xfb201000-0xfb201fff irq 17 at device 1.1 on pci2 aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs pci1: (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x1461) at 30.0 pcib3: at device 31.0 on pci1 IOAPIC #1 intpin 0 -> irq 18 IOAPIC #1 intpin 1 -> irq 19 IOAPIC #1 intpin 4 -> irq 20 IOAPIC #1 intpin 5 -> irq 21 pci3: on pcib3 sym0: <875> port 0x4000-0x40ff mem 0xfb340000-0xfb340fff,0xfb342000-0xfb3420ff irq 18 at device 1.0 on pci3 sym0: Symbios NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking sym0: open drain IRQ line driver, using on-chip SRAM sym0: using LOAD/STORE-based firmware. sym1: <875> port 0x4400-0x44ff mem 0xfb341000-0xfb341fff,0xfb342400-0xfb3424ff irq 19 at device 1.1 on pci3 sym1: Symbios NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking sym1: open drain IRQ line driver, using on-chip SRAM sym1: using LOAD/STORE-based firmware. em0: port 0x4800-0x483f mem 0xfb300000-0xfb31ffff irq 20 at device 2.0 on pci3 em0: Speed:100 Mbps Duplex:Full em1: port 0x4840-0x487f mem 0xfb320000-0xfb33ffff irq 21 at device 2.1 on pci3 em1: Speed:N/A Duplex:N/A pcib4: at device 3.0 on pci0 pci4: on pcib4 pci4: (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x1461) at 28.0 pcib5: at device 29.0 on pci4 IOAPIC #4 intpin 4 -> irq 22 pci5: on pcib5 twe0: <3ware Storage Controller> port 0x5000-0x500f mem 0xfb800000-0xfbffffff,0xfb500000-0xfb50000f irq 22 at device 2.0 on pci5 twe0: 8 ports, Firmware FE7X 1.05.00.065, BIOS BE7X 1.08.00.048 pci4: (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x1461) at 30.0 pcib6: at device 31.0 on pci4 IOAPIC #3 intpin 0 -> irq 23 pci6: on pcib6 twe1: <3ware Storage Controller> port 0x6000-0x600f mem 0xfc000000-0xfc7fffff,0xfc800000-0xfc80000f irq 23 at device 1.0 on pci6 twe1: 4 ports, Firmware FE7X 1.05.00.023, BIOS BE7X 1.08.00.036 pci0: at 29.0 irq 2 pci0: at 29.1 irq 10 pci0: at 29.2 irq 11 pcib7: at device 30.0 on pci0 pci7: on pcib7 pci7: at 1.0 irq 2 isab0: at device 31.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0x2060-0x206f,0-0x3,0-0x7,0x3f4-0x3f7,0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 0 at device 31.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pci0: (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2483) at 31.3 irq 0 orm0: