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Date:      Thu, 27 May 1999 16:52:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:      daniel B <danielb@pacex.net>
To:        Rob Secombe <robseco@wizard.teksupport.net.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD ISP <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: biodone: buffer already done
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990527164313.18068A-100000@almazs.pacex.net>
In-Reply-To: <006401bea856$008f55c0$03451acb@teksupport.net.au>

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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
> 
> 
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