* Martin Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000422 17:04] wrote:
> * Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000421 10:57] wrote:
> > > > > > Apr 15 13:31:06 abacus /kernel: amr0: command 31 wedged after 30 seconds
> > >
> > > Hmm. Looks like I'm not retiring the wedged command correctly. This is
> > > a symptom, rather than the real problem, though. See if disabling the
> > > command timeout stuff makes the system happy - either these commands are
> > > just taking a _long_ time to complete, or you have another problem.
> >
> > Yes, I've been thinking I may need some firmware upgrade from AMI?
> >
> > I'll look into it.
> >
> > Ok, the latest firmware is the uf80-1.61, which is on the card.
>
> The latest firmware for the series 428 cards is UF82. Get it from
> www.ami.com
grrrr... the tables were so fubar'd under netscape that I didn't see
it. I'll be upgrading it asap. thanks!
> > > I _still_ think you have disk, cable or enclosure issues, but now that
> > > you've precipitated this case I can go look at what I'm doing wrong here.
> > > Thanks!
>
> > I was wondering if anyone else on the lists have had the same
> problems
> > as I have been having with the Enterprise 1200 (3 scsi port) version.
>
> I have a series 428 (Enterprise 1200) with two channels and 32MB RAM in
> a
> Tyan dual PPro 200MHz running 5.0-current. This is not a production
> machine,
> and the are no important data on the disks so I can experiment with it
> as I like.
>
> I've had all kinds of problems with it and the three Quantum Viking
> disks I have.
> It trurned out that i must disable SCSI command Queing on the disks in
> the AMI BIOS
> otherwise the controller stops working within a couple of minutes.
I don't have this problem... well it takes a heck of a lot longer than
a couple of minutes...
9:43PM up 2 days, 5:11, 2 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.03, 0.00
> This error is more reproducible using RAID0 than RAID1 or 5.
> I've also had big trouble with a SCA to Wide and narrow converter on one
> of the
> disks. My experience is that the NCR SCSI controllers (as on the AMI
> cards) are
> rather picky about bad SCSI cabling and termination, esp. when running
> Ulra Wide.
Yes, this concerns me, I may yank the box to check the job they did
with the scsi cabling...
> > I'm really not using all that much disk throughput.
> > I'll have that iostat log the next time it keels over.
>
> I can make it fail regerdless of thruput, this is not the old controller
> wedged bug.
>
> I have just put i thru two make worlds (-j64) without any problems, two
> disks RAID0
> one on each channel. First time with default parameters, second time
> with Write back,
> adaptive read, cachedIO.
Wait a sec, you _can_ or _can not_ get it to crash with the latest
firmware and turning off command queuing?
> Tell me if you want me to do something special with it to test it. At
> present I can
> only run it with two disks as I only have two reliable hotswap cradles,
> I have
> access to three more disks but I must buy more cradles before I can use
> them.
I really can't think of anything except getting us a traceback if you
can make it panic.
thanks a ton!
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