From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 2 22:04:09 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA28842 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 22:04:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fw.bby.com.au (ns.bby.com.au [192.83.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA28831 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 22:04:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by fw.bby.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) id RAA24969; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 17:04:04 +1100 (EST) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au(192.168.71.20) via SMTP by fw.bby.com.au, id smtpd024964; Wed Feb 3 06:03:56 1999 Received: from lightning (lightning [192.168.71.20]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA20524; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 17:03:55 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <199902030603.RAA20524@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 From: Gregory Bond To: "John Saunders" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel panic with recent RELENG_3 In-reply-to: Your message of 03 Feb 1999 16:37:29 +1100. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 17:03:55 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Has anybody else noticed the IDE disk flackyness lately? One one machine > I have a ccd mirror, and on another machine a vinum mirror. If I hit > these filesystems heavily it's a garantee to lock, no panic, virtual > console switching works, ping works, but everything stops. I discovered what sounds very similar which bit me only when softupdates were enabled. I also discovered that if I put the 0xa0ff flags on the drive spec in the kernel config (to enable DMA/32 bit/ multi-sector transfers), it works fine. My conclusion was some bug in the old-fashioned bit of the IDE driver, but no-one accepted my offers of a guaranteed hang to help debug the problem :< To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message