From owner-freebsd-isp Thu May 27 16:52:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from almazs.pacex.net (almazs.pacex.net [204.1.219.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA703151A9 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 16:52:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danielb@almazs.pacex.net) Received: from localhost (danielb@localhost) by almazs.pacex.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id QAA18150; Thu, 27 May 1999 16:52:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 16:52:21 -0700 (PDT) From: daniel B To: Rob Secombe Cc: FreeBSD ISP Subject: Re: biodone: buffer already done In-Reply-To: <006401bea856$008f55c0$03451acb@teksupport.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am not a kernel guru but I had exactly the same problem!! It happened to me when my SCSI controller card was about to hickup and during automatic backup session (high data transfers) my disk would freeze-up (red LED on all the time) and I would see the error message: /kernel biodone: buffer already done but my machine did not auto reboot. The problem is mostlikely in your SCSI host adopter (if you are using one and you get a SCSI timeout error message as well) Or your disk has some bad sectors and is about to give up Consider yourself lucky and do a backup!! I had to replace my SCSI controller and the disk as well which was degraded by the controller problem. Dan On Fri, 28 May 1999, Rob Secombe wrote: > Hi, > > We just had one of our servers spontaneously reboot. This machine is > running FreeBSD 2.1.7 RELEASE and has been running flawlessly for 2 years, > up until now. The last entry in the syslog prior to reboot was: > > /kernel biodone: buffer already done > > Could one of you kernel gurus please tell me what this means and is there > something I can do to prevent it happening again. > > Thanks > > Rob Secombe > Teksupport Pty. Ltd. > Melbourne Australia > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message