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Date:      Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:27:44 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To:        Tom Cumming <tcumming123@gmail.com>
Cc:        Vinod R Kashyap <vinodrk@gmail.com>, tcumming@amcc.com, scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 3ware 9500 locks up on 6.0-stable!
Message-ID:  <20060112232744.GF72376@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <de193d070601121234s54544207ldf26a6cb41fe75e5@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20060109185914.GD81914@elvis.mu.org> <cba9fc1a0601091235m24e378f9vac73e19449b34504@mail.gmail.com> <20060109210653.GG81914@elvis.mu.org> <cba9fc1a0601091400j7ce6132fhe46511edb97a11e8@mail.gmail.com> <de193d070601121234s54544207ldf26a6cb41fe75e5@mail.gmail.com>

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* Tom Cumming <tcumming123@gmail.com> [060112 15:20] wrote:
> 
>    When it says it's initializing (and you said 12%). Does the
>    initializing make forward progress, or is it stuck at 12%?
>    Why I'm asking, is that Vinode says you'd see these messages under
>    heavy load, and initializing + any load might be a, "heavy" load.
>    It still doesn't explain a hard lockup. The messages above are similar
>    to a SCSI "busy" status... that's normal.
>    There's some more things to check using the cli, I have to look try'm
>    here first.
>    Do you know of any specific steps you can do to reliably reproduce the
>    lockups? I get the impression there should be.
>    tom.c

It seems fine on 5-stable.

I have the following plans:

.) upgrade the device's firmware.
.) turn off questionable devices in the system BIOS (nvidia ethernet+APCI)
.) re-try with 6.x

I'll let you know what I figure out.

thank you!
-- 
- Alfred Perlstein



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