Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

[Mark Felder]

On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:00:40 -0500, <guy.helmer at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Sep 21 02:14:55 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a 0 5  
> ee 60 16 0 1 0 0
> Sep 21 02:14:55 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): CAM status: SCSI  
> Status Error
> Sep 21 02:14:55 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): SCSI status: Busy
> Sep 21 02:14:55 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): Retrying command
> Sep 21 02:18:44 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a 0 3  
> ef 42 51 0 1 0 0
> Sep 21 02:18:44 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): CAM status: SCSI  
> Status Error
> Sep 21 02:18:44 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): SCSI status: Busy
> Sep 21 02:18:44 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): Retrying command
> Sep 21 02:18:48 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a 0 3  
> ef 64 51 0 1 0 0
> Sep 21 02:18:48 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): CAM status: SCSI  
> Status Error
> Sep 21 02:18:48 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): SCSI status: Busy
> Sep 21 02:18:48 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): Retrying command
> Sep 21 02:18:49 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a 0 3  
> ef 66 51 0 1 0 0
> Sep 21 02:18:49 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): CAM status: SCSI  
> Status Error
> Sep 21 02:18:49 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): SCSI status: Busy
> ...
> Sep 21 05:06:18 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a 0  
> 41 f3 94 99 0 1 0 0
> Sep 21 05:06:18 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): CAM status: SCSI  
> Status Error
> Sep 21 05:06:18 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): SCSI status: Busy
> Sep 21 05:06:18 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): Retrying command


Sometimes you'll see this before a crash, but not every time.