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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-pen-16.sprintlink.net!express.ior.com!cnn.isc-br.com!nwfocus.wa.com!nwnews.wa.com!news1.halcyon.com!usenet From: "Duane H. Hesser" <dhh@androcles.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: freebsd and the ncr53810 pci scsi controller... does it work??? Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 21:05:28 -0800 Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. Lines: 80 Message-ID: <32B62A18.41C67EA6@androcles.com> References: <32B4B295.6844@adelaide.on.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: androcles.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32711 Bogdan Roszkowski wrote: > > hi all... > > i'm having a problem with my ncr53810 scsi host and i'm not sure it its > a bug or if i'm doing something wrong??? > > i have a dell omniplex 590 which has the ncr810 host built-in on the > motherboard and there is only 1 scsi device attached to it (a hard > disk)... all is terminated properly and works 100% under windows nt... > > frequently (about every 10-15mins when running X11) my system crashes > and following are some of the errors on my console: > > sd0(ncr0:0:0): FAST SCSI-2 100ns (10mb/s) offset 8 > > ncr0: restart (ncr dead ?) > /kernel ncr0: restart (ncr dead ?) > > /kernel: script cmd = 88030000 > > ncr0:0 error (81:0) (8-a2-0) (0/13) @ (ffd1002c:00000000) > reg: ca 00 40 13 47 00 00 1f 71 08 00 a2 80 00 0a 02. > > ncr0: restart (fatal error). > sd0(ncr0:0:0): COMMAND FAILED (9 ff) @ f1243400. > sd0(ncr0:0:0): COMMAND FAILED (9 ff) @ f1243a00. > sd0(ncr0:0:0): COMMAND FAILED (9 ff) @ f1243c00. > > vnode_pager_input: I/O read error > vm_fault: pager input (probably hardware) error, PID 599 failure > > ...basically the messages repeat each other with slightly different > values many, many times... after this happens, the system does not > freeze (i can still type and run commands (that are in cache)), but the > hard disk is not accessable... so i have to reboot... and then all is > working again until the problem happens again... > > this basically makes my system impossible to use, so I will be VERY > grateful for any help.... > > thanks in advance > m. :( > michal roszkowski This is probably irrelevant to your problem, but may be of interest to developers--I get the same 'vnode' error messages anytime I attempt to read from a Plextor CDROM *and* write to another device on the scsi bus. Same symptoms (no further access to scsi disks; only commands already in the disk cache work). Unlike your case, I have no periodic ncr problems; I'm ok if I don't try to copy from the CDROM. *ALSO*----the same problem occurs under Linux (except that the disk system remains usable--only the CDROM is a problem). My scsi card is a CSC (Corporate Systems Center) card with an 825 chip. The Plextor is a model PX65CS. I am reasonable certain that the initial problem is hardware (the Plextor has not worked since I got it 14 weeks ago, and I have upgraded both Linux and FreeBSD to the latest stable releases; [FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE #0: Sun Dec 15 13:32:01 PST 1996]) My guess is that our problems are different (yours ncr chip, mine CDROM), but the vnode code is not handling the hardware problems gracefully. BTW...I'm about to replace both the CSC and the Plextor; both are substitutions by the 'web-order' supplier from whom I bought the system. -- Duane H. Hesser dhh@androcles.com commercial mail unwanted; permission to use personal information in mailing lists denied