Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:35:02 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Cc: sos@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA woes Message-ID: <200010311035.LAA09218@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <C1256989.003933FF.00@frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr> from "Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr" at "Oct 31, 2000 11:24:47 am"
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It seems Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr wrote: > Hello, > > Following your advice, I have installed a recent snapshot (4.1-20001029-STABLE) on one of my > broken PCs (I've followed UPDATING with the now classical make buildworld, make > buildkernel, make installXXX ...) > > I have let this machine run "make buildworld" during all of the night, and I still have got a freeze > of the box (as the console gets redirected to a serial port which was not connected at that time, > I do not have the error message <-(( - nevertheless, the symptoms are clear : the compilation > has stopped in the middle of the make buildworld, and the machine was completely frozen). > > I have gone back to PIO mode, and I'm trying to avoid disk acces as much as possible, so this > situation is not critical. > > However, I would like to help and understand what happens : what can I do to investigate on > the matter ? (are there "debugging hooks" in the ata drivers ?) I have two boxes which can > be dedicated to this kind of tests. Yes there are hooks that spits out all kinds of debug stuff, but it will hardly be usefull in this situation, what would be nice is to have DDB installed and then see if you can break into it when the box hangs... We need to get some idea of where it gets stuck, it could be anywhere... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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