Subject: Re: where should I look first? (esiop error messages)
To: Jeff Rizzo <riz@boogers.sf.ca.us>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/27/2004 23:59:17
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 07:42:56AM -0800, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> I've got a dual-proc i386 system running a week or so old -current,
> and I just did a cvs update on /usr/src, and noticed that I got
> some corrupted files.  Poking around a little more, I noticed a
> bunch of scsi errors in dmesg (and consequently /var/log/messages).
> 
> This system was running stably for about a week; the first indication
> of problems are in /var/log/messages from the /etc/daily run yesterday 
> morning:
> 
> [...]
> 
> ... and then several pages of command timeouts, bus resets, and generic HBA
> errors this morning, when I did the CVS update that led me to discover this.
> Obviously, there's a problem.  Is it more likely to be the disk, the 
> controller (which is on the motherboard, unfortunately), or cabling?

I would first check cabling

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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