Hi
 Two things.  My 2 disk RAID5 (and 1 disk spare for total of 3 disk)  failed
this morning with some messages that are attached and the end of this
message. The console was sitting at the db> prompt. Should I be worried? Is
there a fix?

 I rebooted, and then waited for about 100 minutes while the system was at
load level >5. Obviously, the system was pretty unusable while it rebuilt
parity (but did load, and I was able to logon, just SLOW). Everything came
up fine. Parity was rebuilt. fsck marked everything clean, no problems.

 Question would be. I am running this on a notoriously slow machine
(axppci33) , with not much ram (32mb). If I had a faster machine, would
rebuilding the parity be quicker? The dmesg is included also, for reference
sake at the end as well.

Thanks for your time.

Chris



Errors

... (many of these lines)
Jul 2 07:24:11 alphapci /netbsd: isp0: Mailbox Command 'ABORT' failed
(TIMEOUT)
Jul 2 07:24:20 alphapci /netbsd: isp0: Polled Mailbox Command (0x15) Timeout
Jul 2 07:24:20 alphapci /netbsd: isp0: Mailbox Command 'ABORT' failed
(TIMEOUT)
Jul 2 07:24:39 alphapci /netbsd: isp0: Polled Mailbox Command (0x15) Timeout
Jul 2 07:24:39 alphapci /netbsd: isp0: Mailbox Command 'ABORT' failed
(TIMEOUT)
Jul 2 07:24:48 alphapci /netbsd: isp0: Polled Mailbox Command (0x15) Timeout
Jul 2 07:24:48 alphapci /netbsd: isp0: Mailbox Command 'ABORT' failed
(TIMEOUT)
Jul 2 07:24:57 alphapci /netbsd: isp0: Polled Mailbox Command (0x15) Timeout
Jul 2 07:24:57 alphapci /netbsd: isp0: Mailbox Command 'ABORT' failed
(TIMEOUT)
Jul 2 07:25:05 alphapci /netbsd: isp0: Polled Mailbox Command (0x15) Timeout
Jul 2 07:25:05 alphapci /netbsd: isp0: Mailbox Command 'ABORT' failed
(TIMEOUT)
Jul 2 07:25:14 alphapci /netbsd: isp0: Polled Mailbox Command (0x15) Timeout
Jul 2 07:25:14 alphapci /netbsd: isp0: Mailbox Command 'ABORT' failed
(TIMEOUT)
Jul 2 07:25:23 alphapci /netbsd: isp0: Polled Mailbox Command (0x15) Timeout
Jul 2 07:25:23 alphapci /netbsd: isp0: Mailbox Command 'ABORT' failed
(TIMEOUT)
Jul 2 07:25:32 alphapci /netbsd: isp0: Polled Mailbox Command (0x15) Timeout
Jul 2 07:25:32 alphapci /netbsd: isp0: Mailbox Command 'ABORT' failed
(TIMEOUT)
Jul 2 07:25:51 alphapci /netbsd: isp0: Polled Mailbox Command (0x15) Timeout
Jul 2 07:25:51 alphapci /netbsd: isp0: Mailbox Command 'ABORT' failed
(TIMEOUT)
Jul 2 07:25:51 alphapci /netbsd: raid0: IO Error. Marking /dev/sd3a as
failed.
Jul 2 07:25:51 alphapci /netbsd: raid0: node (Rod) returned fail, rolling
backw
ard
Jul 2 07:25:51 alphapci /netbsd: raid0: DAG failure: w addr 0x17b0a0
(1552544)
nblk 0x10 (16) buf 0xfffffe0001692000
Jul 2 07:26:00 alphapci /netbsd: isp0: Polled Mailbox Command (0x15) Timeout
Jul 2 07:26:00 alphapci /netbsd: isp0: Mailbox Command 'ABORT' failed
(TIMEOUT)
Jul 2 07:26:00 alphapci /netbsd: raid0: IO Error. Marking /dev/sd1a as
failed.
Jul 2 07:26:00 alphapci /netbsd: raid0: node (Rod) returned fail, rolling
backward

dmesg

isp0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0
isp0: Qlogic ISP Driver, NetBSD (pci) Platform Version 1.1 Core Version 2.1
isp0: interrupting at isa irq 5
isp0: Board Revision 2100, loaded F/W Revision 1.19.16
isp0: Last F/W revision was 1.19.16
isp0: 307 max I/O commands supported
isp0: NVRAM Port WWN 0x200000e08b00ad7d
isp0: fwoptions from nvram are 0xb
isp0: LIP occurred
isp0: Loop UP
isp0: Firmware State <Config Wait->Ready>
isp0: Name Server Database Changed
isp0: Loop ID 108, AL_PA 0x2a, Port ID 0x2a, Loop State 0x2, Topology
'Private Loop'
isp0: Target 108 (Loop 0x6c) Port ID 0x2a (role Initiator) Arrived
Port WWN 0x210000e08b00ad7d
Node WWN 0x200000e08b00ad7d
scsibus1 at isp0: 256 targets, 8 luns per target
scsibus1: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
isp0: Target 95 (Loop 0x5f) Port ID 0x3c (role Target) Arrived
Port WWN 0x21000020370d8d7d
Node WWN 0x20000020370d8d7d
isp0: Target 119 (Loop 0x77) Port ID 0x17 (role Target) Arrived
Port WWN 0x2100002037168286
Node WWN 0x2000002037168286
isp0: Target 125 (Loop 0x7d) Port ID 0x1 (role Target) Arrived
Port WWN 0x21000020370dac2c
Node WWN 0x20000020370dac2c
sd4 at scsibus1 target 95 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST19171FCSUN9.0G, 137E> SCSI2
0/direct fixed
sd4: 8637 MB, 4926 cyl, 27 head, 133 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 17689267 sectors
sd3 at scsibus1 target 119 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST19171FCSUN9.0G, 137E> SCSI2
0/direct fixed
sd3: 8637 MB, 4926 cyl, 27 head, 133 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 17689267 sectors
sd1 at scsibus1 target 125 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST19171FCSUN9.0G, 137E> SCSI2
0/direct fixed
sd1: 8637 MB, 4926 cyl, 27 head, 133 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 17689267 sectors

netbsd 1.5.1 on alpha.