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Date:      Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:54:09 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Chris Caputo <ccaputo@alt.net>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hard lockups with 3.2-STABLE and ASUS P2B-LS onboard AIC-7890 
Message-ID:  <199907200454.VAA03826@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:55:00 PDT." <Pine.BSI.3.93.990719214947.28180B-100000@baklava.alt.net> 

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> I am seeing crashes consisting of hard lockups when pushing lots of disk
> i/o (doing a "dump" of /usr for example) on a 3.2-STABLE system using the
> ASUS P2B-LS on board SCSI (AIC-7890).  When the crash happens, the SCSI
> activity light on the motherboard and the active drive stay lit.
> ctrl-alt-del gets no response.
> 
> What is the recommended way for debugging this?

Buy a PCI bus analyser, or a new motherboard.

Typically the symptoms you're describing are the result of hard PCI bus 
lockups of one kind or another.  You might try some unscientific 
tweaking of the PCI bus parameters (latency, as well as positioning of 
cards) to see if you can make it go away.

-- 
\\  The mind's the standard       \\  Mike Smith
\\  of the man.                   \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\    -- Joseph Merrick           \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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