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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.intellinet.com!usenet 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 Organization: IntelliNet-ISP, LLC. 1-800-290-7677 Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4c3j7i$fs9@zeus.intellinet.com> References: <4bju5p$ihj@wilma.widomaker.com> <4bnidn$lej@almond.elite.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: md-035.jbr.intellinet.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:11781 comp.periphs.scsi:44172 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. >-- >| Nate Lawson Elite Networking Admin Merced, CA Area's first Internet | >| nate@elite.net (209) 357-4900 Provider.. finger info@elite.net | > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------