Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:06:59 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, gibbs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Panic (unusual) Message-ID: <1180.846169619@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Oct 1996 22:34:35 PDT." <199610240534.WAA16187@freefall.freebsd.org>
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"Justin T. Gibbs" wrote in message ID <199610240534.WAA16187@freefall.freebsd.org>: > >a) what caused this, and how to prevent it happening again? > There was either an overflow somewhere in the kernel that caused the > data len to be larger then what can be represented by the aic7xxx > SG list, or you have bad memory that caused the length to get really > large causing the same effect. I don't think bad memory is a problem, because it's a PPro motherboard with the Natoma chipset, and the BIOS was set to ECC. However, I'm wondering about the motherboard itself, since the serial ports stopped working :-( Thanks, Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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