SCB timeout and other errors + system hang with adaptec/seagate

[Rob Watt]

So,

These error are still cropping up on some of my machines. After upgrading 
the drive firmware and disabling SMART, some of my machines are stable 
(and no longer generate the SCB timeout error).

I am still having problems on a few of the machines though, and I have a 
new piece of data. It seems that when they hang they are generating 
'swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device ...' messages. I noticed that 
fixing swap_pager warnings are on the to-do list for 6.1 release. I have 
not seen any bug reports that give more detail on what exactly the problem 
is. Does anyone have any more info on this? Is there an experimental patch 
I can try? I suspect that the swap_pager problem is not the _only_ 
problem, but it might be what is causing the remaining machines to hang.

Thanks.

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Rob Watt

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

> The termination looks correct.  I'll review your other logs
> to see why we're failing during recovery.
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> Justin
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> --On Wednesday, March 08, 2006 9:35 AM -0500 Rob Watt 
> <rob at hudson-trading.com> wrote:
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 10:06:53 -0500 (EST)
>> From: Rob Watt <rob at hudson-trading.com>
>> To: Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs at scsiguy.com>
>> Cc: Rob Watt <rob at hudson-trading.com>
>> Subject: Re: SCB timeout and other errors + system hang with
>> adaptec/seagate
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>> On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
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>>> Can you send me a dmesg from a boot -v?  Perhaps we're not
>>> getting the termination settings correct on the SCSI controller.
>>> The verbose dmesg should tell.
>> 
>> attached is the verbose dmesg.
>> 
>> thanks
>> 
>> -
>> Rob Watt
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