Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 13:40:13 -0800 From: Matthew Reimer <mreimer@vpop.net> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unexpected bus free & swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer Message-ID: <3856B93D.4D962CB1@vpop.net> References: <199912142011.MAA00665@mass.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith wrote: > > > We're running 3.3-stable from about 10/21/1999 on a machine that we > > haven't physically touched for about four months. It has a (supposedly > > good) LVD cable with a terminator at the end of the cable, that came > > with the Asus motherboard. Last night, the kernel started printing the > > errors below and the machine became unusable: couldn't login, > > unresponsive shells, though it did still respond to pings. > > > > The blknos reported in the swap_pager message repeated in a cycle (e.g., > > 8944, 328, 8944, 328...), and every now and then another blkno would be > > added to the cycle, until at the end (just before we hit the reset > > button) the cycle was > > 8944,328,2640,174968,44560,42848,40720,3208,512,3160. > > > > Are we losing a disk, or is it some kind of bug, or...? > > > > Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. > > > > Matt > > > > Dec 13 17:35:00 merry /kernel: Unexpected busfree. LASTPHASE == 0x40 > > This is indicative of a disk going away, either from a firmware bug or > overheating. Everything goes downhill from there (the command has been > lost, and we don't recover well from that). Thanks for the answer, Mike. The possibility of the disk overheating fits the symptom of the Adaptec probe taking a long time for that drive. :( Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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