Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 08:14:50 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Terribile <materribile@yahoo.com> To: shih@math.jussieu.fr, Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> Subject: Re: Adaptec 2410SA starts doing this: aac0: COMMAND 0xc551a7e8 TIMEOUT AFTER 147 SECONDS (Modified by Chad Leigh -- Shire.NetLLC) Message-ID: <20040317161450.45872.qmail@web21113.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040317093148.GN12602@math.jussieu.fr>
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--- Albert Shih <shih@math.jussieu.fr> wrote: > Le 05/03/2004 à 22:05:25-0700, Scott Long a écrit > > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > > Now the machine, when it tries to check the two aacd volumes on this > > > controller, [... :] > > > > > > aac0: COMMAND 0xc551a7e8 TIMEOUT AFTER 147 SECONDS This is an old experience and it may not be relevant, but ... About four years ago, on FreeBSD 4.2 or 4.3, I saw a similar problem. The actual message was a bit different (and I don't recall it exactly), and sometimes the machine continued to run, sometimes not. It turned out that, in the 2U box we were designing, we had the SCSI cable folded and twisted too tightly, and two of the connectors were a few cm. too close. (We had either four or six drives in this box.) We were lucky enough to be able to get one of the FreeBSD SCSI driver's authors to look things over, and after a couple of days with the box he decided that there really was a problem in hardware and taught us about the care and feeding of SCSI cables. Part of the solution was shortening a long run of the cable that forced us to fold it. (The lab prototype was built with an off-the-shelf cable.) Mark Terribile __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com
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