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Date:      Thu, 5 Sep 2002 16:47:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Paul English <penglish@hydro.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Arena IDE raid 99EX problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209051624280.3263-100000@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020905152315.K87374-100000@dynamic.hydro.washington.edu>

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On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Paul English wrote:
> 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 - massive SCSI errors
> are generated and the filesystem becomes inaccessible. Only a reboot
> (and complete fsck) makes the filesystem available again. Since this is
> happening below the filesystem level, I don't suspect that it is just a
> filesystem error. I suspect that either we've encountered a bug in the
> firmware code, or one (or more) of the disks has bad blocks, and it has not
> been detected as a bad disk.
> ... 
> Sep  4 16:28:27 ephemeral /kernel: (da1:ahc0:0:10:0): SCB 0x42 - timed out
> Sep  4 16:29:42 ephemeral /kernel: (da1:ahc0:0:10:0): SCB 0x23 - timed out
> Sep  4 16:30:57 ephemeral /kernel: (da1:ahc0:0:10:0): SCB 0x41 - timed out
> Sep  4 16:32:12 ephemeral /kernel: (da1:ahc0:0:10:0): SCB 0x22 - timed out
> Sep  4 16:33:27 ephemeral /kernel: (da1:ahc0:0:10:0): SCB 0x2a - timed out
> ... 
> Thanks in advance for any help,
> Paul

Unfortunately, the only thing that shows is that the RAID interface is not
responding to SCSI requests which is most likely a problem with the disks.  
Perhaps you could figure out which drive is the problem via the RAID tools
supplied with the enclosure.

-Nate


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