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Date:      Sat, 09 Mar 1996 09:28:45 -0800
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
To:        "David Langford" <root@dihelix.com>, "David Langford" <langfod@dihelix.com>
Cc:        jkh@whisker.cdrom.com (Jordan Hubbard), current@FreeBSD.org, davidg@FreeBSD.org, dyson@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: One really easy way to panic your -current system 
Message-ID:  <199603091728.JAA11264@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Mar 1996 22:36:52 -1000." <199603090836.WAA12485@caliban.dihelix.com> 

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>Jordan Hubbard
>>
>>
>>Mount the FreeBSD 2.1 CDROM (or any other, probably, this is just
>>for this example) and do a:
>>
>>dd if=/cdrom/dists
>>
>>(e.g. try to read from the directory)
>>
>>panic:  vmwakeup: neg numoutput
>>eip is 0xf01b65f3
>>
>>				Jordan
>
>On a similar note shouldnt  dd if=TEXTFILE of=/dev/st0 work?
>With my setup the machine hangs....
>
>aic0 at 0x340-0x35f irq 9 on isa
>(aic0:2:0): "ARCHIVE Python 25588-XXX 2.96" type 1 removable SCSI 2
>st0(aic0:2:0): Sequential-Access density code 0x13,  drive empty     

I would suggest looking into the improvements made to this driver
in NetBSD and porting them back to FreeBSD.  They've made a few
bug fixes to the aic driver that we should have, but someone with
the hardware has to do the integration.

--
Justin T. Gibbs
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  FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations
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