From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 15 18:34:17 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id SAA01902 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 18:34:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from falcon.adelaide.on.net ([192.231.203.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA01897 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 18:34:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from Bogdan (ppp29.adelaide.on.net.au) by adelaide.on.net (PMDF V5.0-6 #18321) id <01ID2UIIIVYO008Y7F@adelaide.on.net> for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 13:04:09 +0930 Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 11:58:30 +0930 From: Bogdan Roszkowski Subject: freebsd and the ncr53810 pci scsi controller... does it work??? Cc: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <32B4B295.6844@adelaide.on.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk hi all... i'm having a problem with my ncr53810 scsi host and i'm not sure it its a bug or if i'm doing something wrong??? i have a dell omniplex 590 which has the ncr810 host built-in on the motherboard and there is only 1 scsi device attached to it (a hard disk)... all is terminated properly and works 100% under windows nt... frequently (about every 10-15mins when running X11) my system crashes and following are some of the errors on my console: sd0(ncr0:0:0): FAST SCSI-2 100ns (10mb/s) offset 8 ncr0: restart (ncr dead ?) /kernel ncr0: restart (ncr dead ?) /kernel: script cmd = 88030000 ncr0:0 error (81:0) (8-a2-0) (0/13) @ (ffd1002c:00000000) reg: ca 00 40 13 47 00 00 1f 71 08 00 a2 80 00 0a 02. ncr0: restart (fatal error). sd0(ncr0:0:0): COMMAND FAILED (9 ff) @ f1243400. sd0(ncr0:0:0): COMMAND FAILED (9 ff) @ f1243a00. sd0(ncr0:0:0): COMMAND FAILED (9 ff) @ f1243c00. vnode_pager_input: I/O read error vm_fault: pager input (probably hardware) error, PID 599 failure ...basically the messages repeat each other with slightly different values many, many times... after this happens, the system does not freeze (i can still type and run commands (that are in cache)), but the hard disk is not accessable... so i have to reboot... and then all is working again until the problem happens again... this basically makes my system impossible to use, so I will be VERY grateful for any help.... thanks in advance m. :( michal roszkowski