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Date:      Sat, 31 Oct 1998 19:28:29 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
To:        vallo@matti.ee
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: scsi disk (cam?) problems
Message-ID:  <199811010228.TAA27505@panzer.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <19981101052621.B291@matti.ee> from Vallo Kallaste at "Nov 1, 98 05:26:21 am"

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Vallo Kallaste wrote...
> "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Oct 30 10:52:35 FreeBSD /kernel: (da2:ahc0:0:3:0): Invalidating pack
> > > Oct 30 10:52:35 FreeBSD /kernel: (da2:ahc0:0:3:0): Invalidating pack
> > 
> > Well, what's happening here is that one of your disks is returning an
> > error, and keeps returning that error.  Reads and writes in the da driver
> > have a retry count of 4.  So by the time we print out the message above,
> > the command has already been retried four times.  We may also have taken a
> > number of error recovery actions to try to bring the device back.
> 
> ***
> 
> My machine panicked half a hour ago with same 'Invalidating pack' 
> messages. BTW, I forget to remove softupdates and I'm running SMP 
> right now and maybe this was the cause. I'm in the middle of upgrading 
> my hardware so it may be related.

Softupdates and SMP don't have anything to do with the 'Invalidating pack'
messages.  They're most likely because of some hardware failure.

Try booting with -v, and see if you see sense information printed out along
with the 'Invalidating pack' message.

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@plutotech.com

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