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Date:      Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:15:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Eirik Oeverby <ltning@anduin.net>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Obscure errors in dmsg, system instability
Message-ID:  <20040922191436.A36124@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <41519A92.3070503@anduin.net>
References:  <41519A92.3070503@anduin.net>

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On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Eirik Oeverby wrote:

> for some time I have been experiencing weird hangs on one of my servers.
> When it happens, I can still ping it, but I cannot make any connections
> or type anything on existing ssh connections. Serial console is also
> dead, however I can enter the kernel debugger and call cpu_reset() to
> reboot. Upon reboot all is fine again.
>
> Now I discover that my dmsg output contains a few of these:
>
> ahc0: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr = 0x9
> ahc0: Data Parity Error Detected during address or write data phase
>
> and
>
> ahc0: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr = 0x8
> ahc0: Data Parity Error Detected during address or write data phase
>
> Thing is - there's nothing connected to the Adaptec. It is enabled, but
> not used.

Is something sharing an interrupt with that device?

PCI bus errors are generally Bad News .. either some device or the mobo is
inroducing errors.

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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