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Date:      Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:12:07 -0700
From:      Manfred Antar <mantar@netcom.com>
To:        Adam McDougall <mcdougall@ameritech.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: freezing problems with CAM and dpt
Message-ID:  <199809210712.AAA06833@pozo.pozo.com>
In-Reply-To: <3605E837.701ED953@ameritech.net>
References:  <199809162331.RAA05169@narnia.plutotech.com>

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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
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