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Date:      Wed, 27 Dec 2006 07:39:50 -0500
From:      Jan Knepper <jan@digitaldaemon.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Tim McCullagh <tim@halenet.com.au>, FreeBSD ISP <FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: 6.1-RELEASE / 6.2 Kernel Crash...
Message-ID:  <45926996.2070603@digitaldaemon.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061227033742.GA9706@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <45918F6E.90006@digitaldaemon.com>	<004c01c7293b$d5e03b40$6500a8c0@laptopt>	<4591CB3C.1060902@digitaldaemon.com> <20061227033742.GA9706@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 08:24:12PM -0500, Jan Knepper wrote:
>   
>> Tried that and started
>>
>> dd if=/dev/ad4 if=/dev/ad6 bs=1m
>>
>> Kernel went in panic and automatic reboot in about an hour... <sigh>
>>
>> It gets worse... when it does reboot the disk drive will not show in the 
>> BIOS, nor does FreeBSD recognize it during boot. The system actually has 
>> to be turned off to reset the drive...
>>
>> This is bad...
>>
>> Any other suggestions?
>>     
>
> Sounds like a bug in the support for your ATA hardware, or your
> hardware is broken.  The very least you'll need to do is to obtain a
> crashdump and debugging backtrace (see the developers handbook) and CC
> it to sos@
>   
Will start working on that (or downgrade to 5.5)... I am testing that 
and I think although I have not found a documented way of doing that it 
can be done.

Thanks!
Jan





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