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From: jeremy@perf2.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: IPI drive problems.
Message-ID: <109385@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 10 Jun 91 20:40:03 GMT
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In article <9106101331.AA19406@masig4.ocean.fsu.edu>, davis@MASIG4.OCEAN.FSU.EDU (Alan Davis) writes:
> I get these error messages intermittently in the SYSLOG about a
> problem with
> our IPI drive.  When I reported this to the HOTLINE the last time they
> suggested putting in a new IPI drive which we did but obviously did not
> cure the problem.  Can someone at SGI (Dave Olson?) comment on this.
> 
> Jun  7 09:33:04 masig4 unix: ipi0: timeout, resetting
> Jun  7 09:33:04 masig4 unix: ipi0 registers: 84 1C 12 0 B 81 0
> Jun  7 09:33:04 masig4 unix:      Please report the registers to the
> SGI hotline
> Jun  7 09:33:04 masig4 unix:    controller reset after 160 milliseconds
> Jun  7 09:33:04 masig4 unix: ipi0d0: software timeout.  c/h/s =
> 1099/2/24   (retrying)
> Jun  7 09:33:04 masig4 unix: ipi0d0: software timeout.  c/h/s =
> 161/3/8   (retrying)
> 
> We are running on a 4D/320 VGX running 3.3.2
> masig4 24% hinv
> 2 33 MHZ IP7 Processors
> FPU: MIPS R2010A/R3010 VLSI Floating Point Chip Revision: 2.0
> CPU: MIPS R2000A/R3000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.0
> Data cache size: 64 Kbytes
> Instruction cache size: 64 Kbytes
> Main memory size: 32 Mbytes
> Integral Ethernet controller: Version 3
> VGX Graphics option installed
> Xylogics 7800 16-drive IPI disk controller 0: Firmware version 2.1.10

								 ^^^^^^^

That FW should be replaced with 2.2.4.  2.1.10 gets just the sort of
errors you are seeing.