Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 08:35:53 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: gallatin@cs.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin) Cc: gchil0@pop.uky.edu (Greg Childers), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA problem Message-ID: <199912130735.IAA27323@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <14418.33865.945738.983367@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> from Andrew Gallatin at "Dec 11, 1999 12:15:59 pm"
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It seems Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Greg Childers writes: > > Hello, > > > > Seems now is the time to raise problems with ATA, so here goes. I have used the ATA driver > > since its introduction into -current without problem until recently. A kernel from October > > 5 worked fine. Now, it no longer works using ATA, but works fine using the old WD drivers. > > The console freezes after the dmesg and the keyboard is unresponsive. The ata info in > > I'm having similar problems, however mine are spurrious. They happen > maybe 1 in 15 or so reboots. I'm seeing them on two kinds of > machines, both alpha & i386. All the machines I'm seeing this on > have serial consoles, but since about 95% of the machines I take care > of do, they might not mean anything. I haven't seen it on a SCSI > machine, but I'm not sure if that means anything either, since nearly > all our machines boot from IDE disks. > > When they happen, the machine is unresponsive. It will ignore > attempts to break into ddb. I'd have tried to debug it already, but > its pretty damned hard to catch. Usually it only seems to happen when > I reboot a machine from home & cannot walk up & hit the reset button. > :-( Hmm, damn that I can reproduce that error here, I have a machine on constant reboot now, and hope to eventually catch this... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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