"amr0: bad slot x completed" and fsck_ufs hanging

[Panagiotis Christias]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:49:36 +0100 (CET), Marco Beishuizen
<marco at beishuizen.info> wrote:
> On stardate Sun, 21 Nov 2004, the wise Marco Beishuizen entered:
> 
> 
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> > On stardate Sun, 21 Nov 2004, the wise Panagiotis Christias entered:
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> >> the only hint I could find is from the amr(4) man page:
> >>
> >>  amr%d: bad slot %d completed
> >>
> >>  The controller reported completion of a command that the driver did not
> >>  issue.  This may result in data corruption, and suggests a hardware or
> >>  firmware problem with the system or controller.
> >>
> >> Do you have a second controller available to test? We have the same
> >> controllers in several of our servers and I would interested to find
> >> out what is the problem just in case..
> >
> > Unfortunately it's the only controller I have so I can't test it with an
> > other controller.
> >
> > It looks a bit strange that it could be a hardware or firmware problem
> > because the system is brand new. But does this mean I should update my
> > firmware to a newer version?
> >
> > Since you don't seem to have any problems with FreeBSD on this controller I'm
> > also interested in your configuration. Did you do anything special in the
> > BIOS of the controller or something?
> 
> Looks like I've found the problem.
> 
> I reinstalled everything, including the RAID arrays on the SCSI controller.
> The first time I changed the read and write policies in the BIOS console
> and it seems that wasn't a very good idea. Now I didn't change them, and
> all seems to run fine now.
> 
> So I'm glad that the hardware is ok and I don't have to upgrade the
> firmware.
> 
> Marco

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