Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:27:59 -0600 From: denon <denon@denon.cx> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.8 and instabilities with Buslogic SCSI drivers in VMWare Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.2.20031211112710.05535ec0@mail.jon.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.2.20031208152409.09cfed60@mail.jon.com> References: <6.0.1.1.2.20031207022844.066a9008@mail.jon.com> <20031207134057.Y7085@carver.gumbysoft.com> <6.0.1.1.2.20031208152409.09cfed60@mail.jon.com>
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So there are no other thoughts on this? I kinda figured people were interested in squashing 4.8 bugs left and right .. :) -d At 03:25 PM 12/8/2003, you wrote: >Responses inline: > >At 03:41 PM 12/7/2003, you wrote: >>On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, denon wrote: >> >> > We've been doing more work with VMware and FreeBSD lately. Overall it's >> > been going well, but we have a machine that's giving me grief, and I'm a >> > bit concerned. >> > >> > It's running 4.8-Release, with a single virtual SCSI drive. It's been >> > running fine for months, but as of recently, it's started locking >> up. When >> > it locks up, this is what's in the messages: >> > /kernel: (da0:bt0:0:0:0): CCB 0xca993340 - timed out >> > /kernel: bt0: btdone - Attempt to free non-active BCCB 0xca9933c0 >> >>I wonder if the vmware environment is bug-for-bug compatible with the old >>buslogic hardware :-) > >Sure seems it .. though it was stable for a long time, so I don't know .. > > >>I suspect this is a bug in vmware, where the emulated driver is suffering >>from long-term corruption. 43-day bug, perhaps? >> >>Does stopping and starting VMware clear this up? > >Nope, apparently not .. I tried and its happened again today. Seems to >happen about twice a day, but no pattern to it that I see.. > > >-d >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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