Recently, I have begun seeing a disruption of one (1) SCSI bus on one (1) system. It is very intermittent (see Frequency, below), and lasts for a minute or so. The final message indicates a *recovery*; but, I wonder whether or not I am approaching hardware failure -- and, which hardware? Controller? Drives?
Google shows some questions on Debian and FreeBSD; but, there I found no definitive answer. The gist of googling indicates that this maybe a driver issue, rather than hardware. What do you think? A full log of a recent incident is here: <http://helices.org/tmP/loki.scsi.kern.out> # uname -a Linux loki 2.6.6-2-686 #1 Wed Jun 16 01:25:38 PDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Frequency: Jul 28 08:29 Aug 9 11:25 Aug 9 20:23 Aug 18 12:03 Aug 20 00:02 Aug 22 14:51 Unique sorted summary of SCB_xxx errors, from all incidents above: 0 SCB_CONTROL[0x0] SCB_SCSIID[0x7] SCB_LUN[0x0] SCB_TAG[0xff] 0 SCB_CONTROL[0x68]:(ULTRAENB|TAG_ENB|DISCENB) SCB_SCSIID[0x7] 0 SCB_CONTROL[0x6c]:(DISCONNECTED|ULTRAENB|TAG_ENB|DISCENB) 0 SCB_CONTROL[0x7c]:(DISCONNECTED|ULTRAENB|MK_MESSAGE|TAG_ENB|DISCENB) 0 SCB_CONTROL[0xe8]:(ULTRAENB|TAG_ENB|DISCENB|TARGET_SCB) 1 SCB_CONTROL[0x0] SCB_SCSIID[0x7] SCB_LUN[0x0] SCB_TAG[0xff] 1 SCB_CONTROL[0x68]:(ULTRAENB|TAG_ENB|DISCENB) SCB_SCSIID[0x7] 1 SCB_CONTROL[0x6c]:(DISCONNECTED|ULTRAENB|TAG_ENB|DISCENB) 1 SCB_CONTROL[0x7c]:(DISCONNECTED|ULTRAENB|MK_MESSAGE|TAG_ENB|DISCENB) 1 SCB_CONTROL[0xe8]:(ULTRAENB|TAG_ENB|DISCENB|TARGET_SCB) 10 SCB_CONTROL[0x0] SCB_SCSIID[0xff]:(TWIN_CHNLB|OID|TWIN_TID) 11 SCB_CONTROL[0x0] SCB_SCSIID[0xff]:(TWIN_CHNLB|OID|TWIN_TID) 11 SCB_CONTROL[0x68]:(ULTRAENB|TAG_ENB|DISCENB) SCB_SCSIID[0x7] 11 SCB_CONTROL[0x7c]:(DISCONNECTED|ULTRAENB|MK_MESSAGE|TAG_ENB|DISCENB) 12 SCB_CONTROL[0x0] SCB_SCSIID[0xff]:(TWIN_CHNLB|OID|TWIN_TID) 13 SCB_CONTROL[0x0] SCB_SCSIID[0xff]:(TWIN_CHNLB|OID|TWIN_TID) 14 SCB_CONTROL[0x0] SCB_SCSIID[0xff]:(TWIN_CHNLB|OID|TWIN_TID) 15 SCB_CONTROL[0x0] SCB_SCSIID[0xff]:(TWIN_CHNLB|OID|TWIN_TID) 2 SCB_CONTROL[0x0] SCB_SCSIID[0x7] SCB_LUN[0x0] SCB_TAG[0xff] 2 SCB_CONTROL[0x68]:(ULTRAENB|TAG_ENB|DISCENB) SCB_SCSIID[0x7] 2 SCB_CONTROL[0x6c]:(DISCONNECTED|ULTRAENB|TAG_ENB|DISCENB) 2 SCB_CONTROL[0x7c]:(DISCONNECTED|ULTRAENB|MK_MESSAGE|TAG_ENB|DISCENB) 2 SCB_CONTROL[0xe8]:(ULTRAENB|TAG_ENB|DISCENB|TARGET_SCB) 3 SCB_CONTROL[0x0] SCB_SCSIID[0x7] SCB_LUN[0x0] SCB_TAG[0xff] 3 SCB_CONTROL[0x68]:(ULTRAENB|TAG_ENB|DISCENB) SCB_SCSIID[0x7] 3 SCB_CONTROL[0x6c]:(DISCONNECTED|ULTRAENB|TAG_ENB|DISCENB) 3 SCB_CONTROL[0x7c]:(DISCONNECTED|ULTRAENB|MK_MESSAGE|TAG_ENB|DISCENB) 3 SCB_CONTROL[0xe8]:(ULTRAENB|TAG_ENB|DISCENB|TARGET_SCB) 4 SCB_CONTROL[0x0] SCB_SCSIID[0x7] SCB_LUN[0x0] SCB_TAG[0xff] 4 SCB_CONTROL[0x68]:(ULTRAENB|TAG_ENB|DISCENB) SCB_SCSIID[0x7] 4 SCB_CONTROL[0x6c]:(DISCONNECTED|ULTRAENB|TAG_ENB|DISCENB) 4 SCB_CONTROL[0xe8]:(ULTRAENB|TAG_ENB|DISCENB|TARGET_SCB) 5 SCB_CONTROL[0x0] SCB_SCSIID[0x7] SCB_LUN[0x0] SCB_TAG[0xff] 5 SCB_CONTROL[0x68]:(ULTRAENB|TAG_ENB|DISCENB) SCB_SCSIID[0x7] 5 SCB_CONTROL[0x6c]:(DISCONNECTED|ULTRAENB|TAG_ENB|DISCENB) 5 SCB_CONTROL[0x7c]:(DISCONNECTED|ULTRAENB|MK_MESSAGE|TAG_ENB|DISCENB) 5 SCB_CONTROL[0xe8]:(ULTRAENB|TAG_ENB|DISCENB|TARGET_SCB) 6 SCB_CONTROL[0x0] SCB_SCSIID[0x7] SCB_LUN[0x0] SCB_TAG[0xff] 6 SCB_CONTROL[0x68]:(ULTRAENB|TAG_ENB|DISCENB) SCB_SCSIID[0x7] 6 SCB_CONTROL[0x6c]:(DISCONNECTED|ULTRAENB|TAG_ENB|DISCENB) 6 SCB_CONTROL[0x7c]:(DISCONNECTED|ULTRAENB|MK_MESSAGE|TAG_ENB|DISCENB) 6 SCB_CONTROL[0xe8]:(ULTRAENB|TAG_ENB|DISCENB|TARGET_SCB) 7 SCB_CONTROL[0x0] SCB_SCSIID[0x7] SCB_LUN[0x0] SCB_TAG[0xff] 7 SCB_CONTROL[0x68]:(ULTRAENB|TAG_ENB|DISCENB) SCB_SCSIID[0x7] 7 SCB_CONTROL[0x6c]:(DISCONNECTED|ULTRAENB|TAG_ENB|DISCENB) 7 SCB_CONTROL[0x7c]:(DISCONNECTED|ULTRAENB|MK_MESSAGE|TAG_ENB|DISCENB) 7 SCB_CONTROL[0xe8]:(ULTRAENB|TAG_ENB|DISCENB|TARGET_SCB) 8 SCB_CONTROL[0x0] SCB_SCSIID[0xff]:(TWIN_CHNLB|OID|TWIN_TID) 9 SCB_CONTROL[0x0] SCB_SCSIID[0xff]:(TWIN_CHNLB|OID|TWIN_TID) CSIID[0x7] SCB_LUN[0x0] SCB_TAG[0xff] SCB_LUN[0x0] SCB_LUN[0x0] SCB_TAG[0x0] SCB_LUN[0x0] SCB_TAG[0x1] SCB_LUN[0x0] SCB_TAG[0x4] SCB_LUN[0x0] SCB_TAG[0x5] SCB_LUN[0x0] SCB_TAG[0x6] SCB_LUN[0xff]:(SCB_XFERLEN_ODD|LID) SCB_TAG[0xff] SCB_SCSIID[0x7] SCB_LUN[0x0] SCB_SCSIID[0x7] SCB_LUN[0x0] SCB_TAG[0x0] SCB_SCSIID[0x7] SCB_LUN[0x0] SCB_TAG[0x3] SCB_SCSIID[0x7] SCB_LUN[0x0] SCB_TAG[0x4] SCB_SCSIID[0x7] SCB_LUN[0x0] SCB_TAG[0x5] SCB_SCSIID[0x7] SCB_LUN[0x0] SCB_TAG[0x6] SCB_SCSIID[0x7] SCB_LUN[0x0] SCB_TAG[0x7] SCB_SCSIID[0x7] SCB_LUN[0x0] SCB_TAG[0xb] SCB_SCSIID[0x7] SCB_LUN[0x0] SCB_TAG[0xff] -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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