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Date:      Fri, 02 Jul 2004 00:35:38 +0100
From:      Alasdair Lumsden <enquiries@alivewww.com>
To:        Paul Saab <ps@mu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 3Ware 8506 Series, 3DM, Upgrading to 9000 Series
Message-ID:  <1088724938.2879.17.camel@host-83-146-2-180.bulldogdsl.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040701230015.GA87635@elvis.mu.org>
References:  <1088701228.2638.86.camel@host-83-146-2-180.bulldogdsl.com> <20040701215131.GA83112@elvis.mu.org> <1088722694.2554.48.camel@host-83-146-2-180.bulldogdsl.com> <20040701230015.GA87635@elvis.mu.org>

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On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 00:00, Paul Saab wrote:
> There is a debugger where you can force a panic on a hang.  That's what
> DDB/BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER/ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER are for.

Thank you - unfortunately, I'm unsure as to what use a DDB prompt would
be to me.

I'm not a driver/kernel developer, nor do I know C, nor can the box
spare the downtime in the event of this situation occurring again.

Further more, since the box continues to run, and isn't a true "hang" in
the sense of the word, thousands of instructions will have run after the
true cause of the problem, making debugging even harder (presumably - as
I say I'm no developer!)



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