From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 3 20:23:58 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id UAA08046 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 20:23:58 -0700 Received: from kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA08034 ; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 20:23:54 -0700 Received: from mailbox.mcs.com (Mailbox.mcs.com [192.160.127.87]) by kitten.mcs.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA14659; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 22:20:13 -0500 Received: by mailbox.mcs.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.5) id ; Mon, 3 Jul 95 21:32 CDT Received: by venus.mcs.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.5) id ; Mon, 3 Jul 95 21:32 CDT Message-Id: Subject: Re: wcarchive To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 21:32:54 -0500 (CDT) From: "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, julian@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199507040157.SAA05928@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Jul 3, 95 06:57:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1408 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > >> seems to not be responding to ftp requests.. > >> can someone please corroberate this > > > >corroberated... I can ping it, but no ftp or telnet. Inetd is > >probably dead :-(. > > We're having a compatibilty problem with the Seagate Hawk 4 drives and the > 2940 controller/driver. The problem is that they hang the SCSI bus. The > machine eventually paniced and was sitting in the debugger when I reset it. > The machine was also down for several hours on Saturday night. That time > the problem was a circuit breaker that had popped and thus killed the power to > wcarchive and about half of BARRnet's equipment. > If you notice that wcarchive is down in the future, the thing to do is call > me (voice) and tell me about it. > > -DG Note that I had this problem *disappear* when I enabled tagged queueing on the driver! I'm running Micropolis drives, and saw this EXACT symptom. Turning on tagged queueing has had me going now for 4+ days without a problem. Prior MTBF was approximately 40 hours. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity Modem: [+1 312 248-0900] | (shell, PPP, SLIP, leased) in Chicagoland Voice: [+1 312 248-8649] | 7 Chicagoland POPs, ISDN, 28.8, much more Fax: [+1 312 248-9865] | Email to "info@mcs.net" WWW: http://www.mcs.net ISDN - Get it here TODAY! | Home of Chicago's only FULL AP Clarinet feed!