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Date:      Mon, 03 Apr 1995 00:25:53 +0100
From:      Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk>
To:        Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-SCSI@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: strange messages 
Message-ID:  <3786.796865153@palmer.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Apr 1995 20:01:46 CDT." <199504020101.UAA08480@hda.com> 

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In message <199504020101.UAA08480@hda.com>, Peter Dufault writes:
>As long as retries never counts down to 0 the I/O completed OK.

Ah. Thanks.

>What type of disk is this?

Conner CFP1060S.

>Never say never but I doubt it.  Could you describe these hangs
>more completely?

Occasionally, when the kernel does disk accessing (it seems to be to
read in a relatively small ammount of data, e.g. next screenful of text
for `more') after a reasonable dormant period, the SCSI bus just locks up.
Both the light on the disk drive and on the SCSI card stay on all the time
(although an external CDROM drive on the same bus doesn't seem bothered),
and the kernel gripes repeatedly to console about aha commands timing out,
then eventually gives up the ghost and reboots (about 2 minutes AFAIR).
It seems to happen most often when I am reading long news articles
(from a innd running on localhost using trn). I've seen it happen whilst
printing using lpd running a PS file through ghostscript outputting to
a DJ500.

Thanks

Gary



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