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From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: kern/1164: machine locks up 
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The following reply was made to PR kern/1164; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
To: mazumdar@evita.cs.fredonia.edu
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/1164: machine locks up 
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 07:56:56 -0700

 >	Note: There was a bad value `Information' for the field `>Class:'.
 >	It was set to the default value of `sw-bug'.
 >
 >
 >>Number:         1164
 >>Category:       kern
 >>Synopsis:       machine locks up
 >>Confidential:   no
 >>Severity:       serious
 >>Priority:       medium
 >>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 >>State:          open
 >>Class:          sw-bug
 >>Submitter-Id:   current-users
 >>Arrival-Date:   Mon Apr 29 07:50:03 PDT 1996
 >>Last-Modified:
 >>Originator:     Jin Mazumdar
 >>Organization:
 >Jin Mazumdar        
 >
 >(internet:) mazumdar@cs.fredonia.edu
 >
 >  >>> Dept. Of Math and C. S.                          <<<
 >  >>> State University of New York College at Fredonia <<<    
 >  >>> Fredonia, N.Y. 14063         (716) 673 3459      <<<
 > 
 >>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-960323-SNAP i386
 >>Environment:
 >
 >	Intel P5-133 SuperMicro motherboard with Adaptec 2940 SCSI 
 >controller.  Has ATI-Mach 64 graphics card and two Connor Disks 
 >(2 GB and 4GB).  Has a NE2000 ethernet adapter.  Machine serves as 
 >a news server,  X server  and file server.
 >
 >>Description:
 >
 >	This machine hangs up unpredictably upto a few times a day.  
 >Suspect race conditions with the disk drives but this is just intuition.
 >
 >	Was wondering if this is a known problem and would like suggestions
 >as to whether I should try a different SCSI controller (Buslogic) or fall
 >back to the 2.1 Release which was fairly stable under similar circumstances.
 >
 >>How-To-Repeat:
 >
 >	
 >
 >>Fix:
 >	
 >	
 >
 >>Audit-Trail:
 >>Unformatted:
 
 There were some bug fixes to the Adaptec driver since the 323 SNAP.  I
 would suggest either getting those fixes, upgrading too the next
 SNAP, or fall back to 2.1-STABLE.
 --
 Justin T. Gibbs
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