From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Sep 5 16:30:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90A2737B400 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 16:30:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic.adaptec.com [208.236.45.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24D4343E6E for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 16:30:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gibbs@scsiguy.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g85NTvG05893; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 16:29:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from btc.btc.adaptec.com (btc.btc.adaptec.com [10.100.0.52]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA26288; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 16:29:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.100.253.70] (aslan [10.100.253.70]) by btc.btc.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA26041; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 17:29:53 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 17:29:54 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Reply-To: "Justin T. Gibbs" To: Paul English , freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Arena IDE raid 99EX problem Message-ID: <80630000.1031268594@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> In-Reply-To: <20020905152315.K87374-100000@dynamic.hydro.washington.edu> References: <20020905152315.K87374-100000@dynamic.hydro.washington.edu> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hi, > I have an Arena IDE raid 99EX 6 bay desktop which was purchased > some time ago (approx 2 years +). It is operating in raid 5 mode with 6 > maxtor 60 gb disks and is attached to a PC running FreeBSD > (4.4-RELEASE) with an Adaptec SCSI (7880) card. > > I am seeing a problem when I access (attempt to copy, or just get > file properties) specific files in a specific directory... >From the aic7xxx driver's point of view, the RAID controller is not reselecting (i.e. responding) to two commands that were sent to it. Since this occurs when you access some specific locations of the filesystem, my guess is that the RAID controller is experiencing some kind of disk error that stuffs it up. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message