Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 18:31:35 -0600 From: "Rob Snow" <rsnow@texas.net> To: <dg@root.com>, "Brett Stockdale" <bstockr@netscape.net> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Locks up Message-ID: <000b01be2a1d$c53733a0$03e48486@dympna.com>
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Brett, Are you, by chance, running a PCI NIC (EtherExpress Pro in my case)? If so, try turning off PCI write combining. Had the same problem, that fixed it. PS. Took several days to figure it out, I was sure it was (in about this order) CAM, TCP Stack, SCSI, SAMBA, NFS...... -Rob -----Original Message----- From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Brett Stockdale <bstockr@netscape.net> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Thursday, December 17, 1998 2:00 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Locks up > We have fixed quite a few bugs since 2.2.5; is it possible to upgrade to >2.2.8 and see if the problems persist? > >-DG > >David Greenman >Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project > >> I just received and installed Freebsd 3.0 on a 75Mhz pentium with 48 >>Meg RAM, a Adaptec 2940 SCSI host adapter and a Seagate 1.1 Gig hard drive >>sda0 (this drive is strickly for win95) and a Seagate 520 Meg hard drive sda1, >>this is set up for freebsd all 520 Meg. after a period of time my system locks >>up, sometimes I get the following message. >> >>da1:ahc0:0:2:0): tagged openings now 64 >>da1:ahc0:0:2:0): tagged openings now 63 >>da1:ahc0:0:2:0): tagged openings now 62 >>da1:ahc0:0:2:0): tagged openings now 61 >> >>and sometimes nothing. At this point I either press the reset button on the >>front of my machine or have to power down in order to get the system up and >>running again. freebsd 2.1.5 will install and run fine with no problem. I >>upgraded to 2.2.5 when I purchased the complete FreeBSD this also gave a >>different lock up. Do you have any ideas you have of what >>the problem is, is there a patch for this yet? >> >> I can reinstall FreeBSD 2.1.5 and let it run for days without locking up. >>This is the 4 set of disks I have brought from Walnut Creek and really would >>like to get this up and running so as to learn more about this system. >> >> Any help would be appreciated >> >> Brett Stockdale >> >> bstockr@concentric.net >> bstockr@netscape.net >> >> >> >> >>____________________________________________________________________ >>More than just email--Get your FREE Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/mail >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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