From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 23 11:45:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA25917 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 11:45:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA25900 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 11:45:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA24516; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 11:45:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 11:45:16 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Peter Olsson cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is: "ahc0: WARNING no command for scb 0 (cmdcmplt)"? In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980221125146.0077b5bc@lda> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Peter Olsson wrote: > A couple of days ago we had the following message in the nightly > security check: > public kernel log messages: > > ahc0: WARNING no command for scb 0 (cmdcmplt) > > QOUTCNT == 15 > > ahc0: WARNING no command for scb 0 (cmdcmplt) > > QOUTCNT == 14 > > This repeated until QUOTCNT was == 1. Looks like your disk went south. Check connections and termination. > I never had time to investigate what this meant and two nights after that > the machine crashed with a completely wiped harddisk. sd0 seemed to not > exist any more. The data on the harddisk was probably ok but it had lost > something vital so sd0 was gone. I had to reinstall and restore backup. > > I'm wondering what this message means and if it could be the reason for > the crash later? Perhaps; the cable could be loose, the disk is going down, or your controller is misconfigured. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message