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Date:      Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:45:19 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help diagnoseing a panic
Message-ID:  <20000223104519.A2912@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002221101530.28217-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002221101530.28217-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>

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On Tuesday, 22 February 2000 at 11:10:47 -0800, Brian Beattie wrote:
> I have started getting a panic in the past couple of weeks on my
> 4.0-Current system.  The immediate symptom is disk related.  I was
> wondering if anybody could give me some hints in trying to determine if
> this is hardware or software.
>
> The problem occurs under heavy disk (SCSI) load "rm -rf /usr/src"  or "pax
> -rw / /usr /mnt"  or even "make release".  Setting up a serial console is
> possible, thought difficult, since I lack the spare hardware to dedicate.
>
> The panic refers to an SCB I can copy down the error message if anybody is
> willing to try to decypher it, so far the message tends to scroll off
> before I get a chance.

You really need to compile a kernel with debugging symbols, if you
haven't already done so, and take a dump when the system crashes.
There's a section on it in the handbook.

Greg
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