In the last episode (Mar 26), Anthony Atkielski said: > Chris writes: > > That's good news - I'm glad to hear that you are progressing with > > your issues. Once you have these items under control - you ought to > > have a more enjoyable experiance with whatever OS you wish to use. > > Now if I could just fine the problem FreeBSD has with my SCSI drives > on my test machine. I noticed that the pages and pages of error > messages I get sometimes when doing I/O to the disks are also > generated even by something as simple as "smartctl -a" which > presumably does not do any physical I/O to the platters. This would > seem to rule out any hardware problems involving the media, > actuators, etc.
smartctl sends raw SCSI requests to the disk, and I think a recent change in either smartmontools or the scsi code is ending up with the wrong timeout value, so the request times out immediately. This happens to me when I launch smartd on all my machines, but it's intermittent and doesn't seem to affect anything (I get periodic temerature notifications after that with no timeout errors). See PR misc/73833 . -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"