From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 5 15:27:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA06124 for current-outgoing; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 15:27:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA06119 Tue, 5 Mar 1996 15:27:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from venus.mcs.com (root@Venus.mcs.com [192.160.127.92]) by kitten.mcs.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA02881; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 17:27:09 -0600 Received: by venus.mcs.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.5) id ; Tue, 5 Mar 96 17:27 CST Message-Id: Subject: Re: 2842 and the disappearing file-system :-( To: rlenk@widget.xmission.com (Ron Lenk) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 17:27:08 -0600 (CST) From: "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" Cc: imb@scgt.oz.au, stable@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603052017.NAA06046@widget.xmission.com> from "Ron Lenk" at Mar 5, 96 01:17:04 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > Without warning today, the recurrent collapse of -stable with "panic: > > inconsistent xxx queue" managed to trash my root file-system beyond recovery > > (/etc et al) and a substantial proportion of anything vaguely near a > > file-subsystem root directory (i.e. /var, /usr and /home are all separate > > file-systems and all were damaged to varying degrees). I presume that this > > was just particularly bad timing as there was significant activity on all of > > them at that moment (of the order of ~60 transfers second). > > Well, I can tell you that you're not alone in seeing these particular > problems with -stable and the 2842. I've seen the same types of panics > and hang conditions with -stable for the last two months. ( since the > import of the new ahc driver in Jan ) Fortunately, however, I have been > using a 2.1-RELEASE kernel without incident ( up 15 days right now ), > so I haven't seen any spectacular filesystem damage. I have given up on 27xx EISA adapters under FreeBSD. I get hangs of different kinds, and a few panics. 1742s and the PCI boards seem to be fine so far. So long as the PCI situation holds, we can live with a broken EISA card for *new* machines. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity Modem: [+1 312 248-0900] | T1 from $600 monthly; speeds to DS-3 available Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1] | 21 Chicagoland POPs, ISDN, 28.8, much more Fax: [+1 312 248-9865] | Email to "info@mcs.net" WWW: http://www.mcs.net/ ISDN - Get it here TODAY! | Home of Chicago's only FULL Clarinet feed!