Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 20:36:06 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: dutchman@spase.nl (Kees Jan Koster) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: R.I.P. Message-ID: <199602141006.UAA16820@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199602140749.IAA00902@phobos.spase.nl> from "Kees Jan Koster" at Feb 14, 96 08:49:08 am
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Kees Jan Koster stands accused of saying: > > Last night my system crashed, badly. I don't know what the cause is, so > I'll report the incident here. > > I was playing with a newly-installed old cdrom player when my system > stopped dead in its tracks. Glancing over at the console I saw a flash > of the following message: > > <...> Illegal request <...> Possibly the CDrom puked and locked the SCSI bus. > Before I bring out the low-level formatters: > > - What's this `Illegal request' that I got? I don't know any more > details. I was stupid enough to reboot the thing without noting > the message. (Yes, I have been using MS-DOS <:( ) It means that a SCSI device responded to a command with an "Illegal Request" response. If you saw what was before it, you would have known which device it was. > - What does that `5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 giving up' mean? I've seen the > numbers before. They are very intriguing, what do they mean? They mean that there are 5 buffers to be flushed, and that after waiting for a while the kernel has decided that it's unable to write them out so it gives up. In your case, they may have been on either disk; the SCSI bus was probably locked so you couldn't write to the SCSI disk, and the IDE bus was probably screwed too. > - What's the `Error: C:0 ...' message. (Cylinder 0, Head 0, Sector 0 > not readable? The bootcode is trying to read 0/0/0 and the BIOS is giving it an error, most likely come through from the IDE disk. > Kees Jan Koster e-mail: dutchman@spase.nl -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "I seek PEZ!" - The Tick [[
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