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From: cdeviney@intellinet.com (Cathy De Viney)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: SCSI-2 Bus Hangs
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 14:48:47 GMT
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Is it a Seagate drive that hangs?

nate@elite.net (Nate Lawson) wrote:

>Ben Loyall <bloyall@widomaker.com> wrote:
>>I have a Usenet server that keeps locking up.  When it locks, the SCSI-2 
>>disk in question will have its access light light solidly.  The rest of 
>>the machine is still running, but nothing can access the disk.  
>>Eventually, all process block waiting on i/o and the machine is dead.

>You might want to make sure that you have _not_ enabled MMAP support in your
>INN server because it is not quite workable in freebsd.

>>A complete power down is the only cure.  This used to happen on average 
>>every 7 days when the drive was controlled by an AHA-1742/I486dx2 combo.  
>>But since going to NCR-8510/IP100,  It is usually once every 24 hours.
>>The only thing I can attribute that to is the speed increase.

>Also, the NCR chipset is absolute junk.


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