On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 05:04:09PM -0700, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This morning I had a very strange (at least I've never seen it before) SCSI
> > related system hang. The system simply stopped responding at 9:30:03 am
> > this morning. I found it in this state at 13:20. It had been hanging
> > _hard_. No response to console, serial terminal or network. After a hard
> > reset the system came back online normally and is working normally again.
> >
> > Note that the machine had an uptime of 4 days, 14 hours before the problem
> > occured and it never happened before.
> >
> > Could this be a hardware problem?
>
> Perhaps. Is your WD drive getting hot? The ahc driver believes that,
> during a message out phase, the target simply dropped off the bus.
> It may be that the ahc driver did something to provoke that, but without
> a bus analyzer on the drive, it is hard to know. According to the
> progrom counter, we are waiting for the target to request the next
> byte at the time this occurs, but that request never comes.
If it only happens from time to time it also could be a power loss.
Check your power cabling to be shure.
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B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de
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