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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!spcuna!ritz!ritz From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) Subject: Re: Strange Crash References: <DDywqs.Jo9@ritz.mordor.com> <41q60m$p3u@reason.cdrom.com> <42hdjc$6uk$1@haywire.DIALix.COM> Organization: Mordor International Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 12:43:28 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950726BETA PL0] Message-ID: <DEFnCH.FFw@ritz.mordor.com> Lines: 33 Peter Wemm (peter@haywire.DIALix.COM) wrote: : "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes: : : >ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) wrote: : >>Anyone seen this before? : >> : >>Aug 26 15:08:20 sauron /kernel: bt0: Try to abort : >>Aug 26 15:08:39 sauron /kernel: bt0: Try to abort : >>Aug 26 15:08:41 sauron /kernel: bt0: Abort Operation has timed out : >>Aug 26 15:08:42 sauron /kernel: biodone: buffer already done : : >Yeah, I have.. I used to have a drive that would, very occasionally, just : >decide that it was having an attack of existential angst and needed to spin : >down for awhile. When this would happen, FreeBSD would notice its last : >operation go astray, try to abort it, time out on the abort (because the : >device was offline, not stuck) and then proceed to go to pieces over it. : : >Bad error checking (or more simply a lack thereof) in the SCSI driver : >is the real culprit. It's better to have your hardware work, of course, : >but FreeBSD still shouldn't have kittens when it stops in recoverable : >ways.. Bug stompers in the SCSI code are always welcome! :) : : Hey!! That's what happened to me!!! Only problem was that the system : was totally trashed almost beyond recovery as a result... : : From my experience, I'd rate the potential seriousness of this bug : at about 18 out of 10... Well, it never did any damage to my filesystem. Also, it seems to have gone away now that I've put the problematic drive in an external enclosure with active termination. Chris -- Christopher Mauritz | For info on internet access: ritz@mordor.com | finger/mail info@ritz.mordor.com OR Mordor International | http://www.mordor.com/ 201/212/718 internet access | Modem: (201)433-7343,(212)843-3451