Subject: Re: Problem with aic7899
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/13/2003 10:26:07
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:48:32PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 08:03:54AM +0100, Christoph Kaegi wrote:
> > On 2003.02.10 10:41, Christoph Kaegi wrote:
> > > Dear NetBSDers
> > > 
> > > I set up RaidFrame mirroring last week one of our 
> > > Supermicro 6012P-6B. The have an Adaptec aic7899
> > > chipset onboard with two identical Seagate ST336607LC
> > > disks on it.
> > > 
> > 
> > OK, it died again tonight. This time it also trashed the
> > mirror and the softdeps enabled /usr filesystem.
> 
> Did you try to disable tagged queuing ?

Note that the processor thinks it's been asked to do an *overlapped*
command (you know, that abortive attempt at TQ before the SCSI folks
invented TQ?).  Something is deeply, deeply wrong here; data corruption 
by script bugs or some kind of DMA mistake, perhaps?

Thor