Help! Is this kernel or hardware problem? (fwd)

[Paul Lussier]

"Steven W. Orr" <steveo at syslang.net> writes:

> My system has been behaving weirdly. (What the hell does that mean?)
> It has rebooted a couple of times and just now I had a ~20 second lockup.
>
> I just grabbed syslog for the event but I don't know what it
> means. Any help? Please?
>
> Nov 23 22:24:53 saturn kernel: <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Dump Card State Ends 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
> Nov 23 22:24:53 saturn kernel: (scsi0:A:0:0): Device is disconnected,
> re-queuing SCB
> Nov 23 22:24:53 saturn kernel: Recovery code sleeping
> Nov 23 22:24:53 saturn kernel: (scsi0:A:0:0): Abort Tag Message Sent
> Nov 23 22:24:53 saturn kernel: Recovery code awake
> Nov 23 22:24:53 saturn kernel: Timer Expired
> Nov 23 22:24:53 saturn kernel: aic7xxx_abort returns 0x2003
> Nov 23 22:24:53 saturn kernel: scsi0:0:0:0: Attempting to queue a
> TARGET RESET message
> Nov 23 22:24:53 saturn kernel: CDB: 0x2a 0x0 0x3 0x6 0xcc 0x48 0x0 0x4 0x0 0x0
> Nov 23 22:24:53 saturn kernel: aic7xxx_dev_reset returns 0x2003
> Nov 23 22:24:53 saturn kernel: Recovery SCB completes

This looks bad.  It appears that your scsi controller is having some
serious problems.  I'd look to make sure the card is properly seated,
the cables are okay, the attached devices are okay, etc.  If this is a
brand new controller, perhaps it's bad.  If it's an old card, I'd be
surprised that it's suddenly going bad, controllers don't usually fail
(certainly possibly, but usually it's infant mortality or they last
forever).  You could have a bad cable, or your drives are dying.

But it's definitely a scsi problem. 

Hope this helps.

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Seeya,
Paul