From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Sep 5 16:47:34 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 993D337B400 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 16:47:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5EE0043E4A for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 16:47:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 3310 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Sep 2002 23:47:28 -0000 Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 16:47:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson To: Paul English Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Arena IDE raid 99EX problem In-Reply-To: <20020905152315.K87374-100000@dynamic.hydro.washington.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message