jazzman on 9 Dec 2007 22:34:00 -0000


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[PLUG] More SCSI Weirdness (was: Ubuntu & Drive Order)


Ok, so I think I may have some more info on the weird drive behavior I was 
seeing with my scsi array.

I tried the drive array on a second machine, different OS (Fedora 5) but 
the machine behaves similarly (doesn't always detect ALL of the drives on 
each boot... the scsi drives randomly pop in and out of existence on each 
reboot). The only thing I did notice is that each machine has the SAME 
scsi card (tekram DC395x) and that when the drives disappear on the FC5 
machine I get the following error message flooding the logs:

dc395x: QUEUE_FULL for dev (0X-0)

where X is the scsi ID of the first "missing" drive.

Does anyone know anything good/bad about this card? It was cheap when I 
bought it, but I'm hesitant to go buying new cards/cables and such without 
knowing for sure. If this is a "could be anything" type of problem I have 
a feeling the scsi case and it's drives end up on ebay befoer long...

any thoughts?

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