From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 21 00:12:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA17081 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:12:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pozo.pozo.com (pozo.pozo.com [207.201.8.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA17076 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:12:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mantar@netcom.com) Received: from dual (DUAL [192.168.0.2]) by pozo.pozo.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id AAA06833; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:12:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mantar@netcom.com) Message-Id: <199809210712.AAA06833@pozo.pozo.com> X-Sender: null@192.168.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1.0.63 (Beta) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:12:07 -0700 To: Adam McDougall , current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Manfred Antar Subject: Re: freezing problems with CAM and dpt In-Reply-To: <3605E837.701ED953@ameritech.net> References: <199809162331.RAA05169@narnia.plutotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:46 AM 9/21/98 -0400, Adam McDougall wrote: >Justin T. Gibbs wrote: >> >> In article <19980916142943.C367@kublai.com> you wrote: >> > On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 12:45:26PM -0400, Adam McDougall wrote: >> >> Adam McDougall wrote: >> >> > >> >> > Hi, since doing several make worlds and kernels since CAM was in, I have >> >> > had two total sudden system freezes. >> >> >> >> Whoops forgot to say I was using softupdates. >> >> Can either of you reproduce this problem without softupdates? If the >> problem is in the CAM code, disabling softupdates should exacerbate >> the problem as you will end up doing more I/O. >> >> Suspicious of softupdates... >> Justin >> > >Yes I disabled softupdates and it still happened. Suspiciously I think >each time the freeze occurred was when using (linux) ELF netscape with >ELF world and Xfree. The very last crash happened when the disk was >fairly idle, just scrolling around in netscape. However it never froze >the comp before CAM :/ > >I noticed some commits about atlas II quirks, what do they mean? Also, >is there anything else I can try to help diagnose the problem? Not much >I can do once it's crashed, cant even ping it. > >PS. I've been cvsup'ing and compiling world and kernel approx. daily to >keep up to date on sources. If that drive is a Quantum atlas ll , then I had many problems using one with a DPT 2124 controller in non-RAID mode. I had to get rid of it. Manfred ============================== || mantar@netcom.com || || pozo@infinex.com || || Ph. (415) 681-6235 || ============================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message