> My experimental OpenBSD firewall occasionally crashes. It reports
> loads of stuff like 'sd0 (at aha0:0:0) timeout ' until the kernel
I've had problems with the aha driver and/or host adapter too.
My machine has not crashed since I exchanged the SCSI disk for an
IDE disk. (The hardware was so old that it was not worth worrying
about.)
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On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 07:34:09PM +0000, Jan Muenther wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> okay, this is probably hardware-related, but since I'm not 100%
> sure as to whether that is correct, I might just ask someone
> else's opinion. Most info is from my (normally leaky) memory so
> please don't trout-slap me for unprecise descriptions, I've got a
> bad conscience anyway.
>
> My experimental OpenBSD firewall occasionally crashes. It reports
> loads of stuff like 'sd0 (at aha0:0:0) timeout ' until the kernel
> panics and the ddb prompt appears. I did a trace and issued a
> 'boot dump', which seemed to successfully write the dump to disc.
> There's no relevant entry in /var/log/messages.
>
> The _simple_ question is: Am I right in guessing the disk has
> probably seen better days? Though it doesn't report any errors
> when I fsck any partition on it, the error messages sound like
> either the disk (some 1,2GB Seagate SCSI disk) or the SCSI host
> adaptor (Adaptec 1542) are faulty - or am I mistaken here?
>
> I originally planned to use this machine to show my boss BSD's
> able to turn older machines into actually useful equipment.
> Should I better drop the box or do you think I encounter a
> non-hardware problem here?
>
> The kernel is pretty much the generic kernel, only difference is
> I applied ipf 3.4.16 to it - recompiled and booted without any
> troubles. I can of course provide a dmesg and the dump I made if
> someone is actually interested... :-%
> Since the hardware is not exactly exotic and the drivers should
> be long tested, I'd say the whole thing is due to c***y
> hardware... or not?
>
> Cheers, Jan
>
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