Re: kern/32626

[Matteo Beccati <php%beccati.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/32626; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matteo Beccati <php%beccati.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/32626
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:58:48 +0200

 > From: "Martin S. Weber" <Ephaeton%gmx.net@localhost>
 >  > From: Matteo Beccati <php%beccati.com@localhost>
 >  >  
 >  >  after upgrading to 6.1 RC2, I've started experiencing the same issue.
 >  >  Every night, during the generation of the daily report, the USB hard
 >  >  drive generates quite a lot of these errors:
 >  >  
 >  >  umass0: BBB reset failed, TIMEOUT
 >  >  umass0: BBB bulk-in clear stall failed, TIMEOUT
 >  >  umass0: BBB bulk-out clear stall failed, TIMEOUT
 >  >  
 >  >  After that I cannot cleanly shutdown, nor kill -9 some processes. I
 >  >  don't recall this happening with 6.0, but maybe the drive just had less
 >  >  data (i.e. there are backup copies of the old filesystems now).
 >  
 >  I believe this is simply really really badly broken hardware. Backup your 
 > data 
 > :)
 
 I would have expected a different message for disk faults...
 
 Anyway, I've picked up a new USB disk and started transferring data to
 it. Not very surprisingly, both HDs now generate the same kind of error
 when stressed, usually either one of the two starts triggering timeouts
 and the other one follows soon after.
 
 
 Cheers
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 Matteo Beccati
 
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