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Date:      Tue, 19 Dec 1995 09:31:24 -0500 (EST)
From:      steve hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To:        David Greenman <davidg@root.com>
Cc:        Jason Wright <jason@oozoo.vnet.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: reboots (SCSI) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.SCO.3.91.951219093000.27485L-100000@buffnet3.buffnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <199512190500.VAA03007@corbin.Root.COM>

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On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, David Greenman wrote:

> >I've have been experiencing uptimes anywhere from 3 days to 4 hours (not
> >too good, eh?)
> >
> >I've enclosed all of the messages prior to each reboot (today!).  By
> >just the looks of the first two, I'd guess that sd2 was flaking out
> >(it's well ventilated, I've heard the horror stories about Baracuda drives).
> >But, the third appears to be related to sd3.  After each there were some
 >messages about syncing the disks and 'automagic reboot in 15 seconds...'.
> 
>    This is caused by bugs in the aha2940 driver. Justin Gibbs (the author of
> the driver) has been working on a fix for the problem. I'm able to reproduce
> the problem here fairly easily (I can make it happen within a minute or two
> with 7 4.3GB Quantum Grand Prix drives). Hopefully we'll have a fix for you
> soon.
> 
> -DG

I had occational problems too with 4 scsi drives - this stopped when I 
enabled MFS (I used the bootmfs instead of GENERIC)  You might give it a try.

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Steve Hovey -- shovey@buffnet.net
 	       root@buffnet.net




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