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From: strange@tezcat.com (Mike Scher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Buslogic fails to reset?
Date: 23 Jul 1996 02:05:51 GMT
Organization: Cultural Consulting, Chicago
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Scenario: FreeBSD 2.1.0 and a Buslogic 946C card, two very different PCI
machines (DEC P133; Acer P100), and different SCSI peripherals (Connor
and a 4mm external drive on one, Micropolis drive (internal only) on the
other.
Whenever -any- SCSI device has a read error, the system will lose it.
Error reported is : bt0 trying to reset -- repeatedly -- this will result
in the machine either hanging at that point or going into panic; it does
not tend to come back up without a full power cycle. This happens, of
course, most often during heavy disk access or tape verifies.
Has anyone had familiarity with this? I'm at the point now that I am
making backups without verify in order to prevent lockups.
-Mike
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Michael Brian Scher (MS683) | Anthropologist, Attorney, Part-Time Guru
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