Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 11:10:57 +1000 From: Rob Secombe <robseco@wizard.teksupport.net.au> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: biodone: buffer already done Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990528111057.00b26bc0@moat-gw.teksupport.net.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990527164313.18068A-100000@almazs.pacex.net> References: <006401bea856$008f55c0$03451acb@teksupport.net.au>
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Hi Dan, Yeah, it would have been backing up SCSI --> SCSI DAT Tape at the time that it fell over. No sign of media errors in the logs though. Cheers Rob. At 16:52 27-05-99 -0700, you wrote: >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
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