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Date:      Sun, 6 Jul 1997 09:20:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Justin Gibbs <gibbs@plutotech.com>
To:        freebsd-bugs
Subject:   Re: kern/4039: 2940UW, IBM DCAS 32160 -- hungs if ultra speed (40 MB/sec) selected 
Message-ID:  <199707061620.JAA26956@hub.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/4039; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Justin Gibbs <gibbs@plutotech.com>
To: news@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/4039: 2940UW, IBM DCAS 32160 -- hungs if ultra speed (40 MB/sec) selected 
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 1997 10:12:51 -0600

 >	doing a newfs on the second drive while doing I/O will
 >	cause a system hung (no response, no reboot), if
 >	40 MB/sec was selected as IO-speed for each SCSI drive
 >	in the adaptec BIOS. Will hung not always, but very often.
 
 This sounds very much like the buffer deadlock problem that was
 fixed recently in current by Bruce.  My guess is that you are newfsing
 the block device instead of the raw device (which you shouldn't be doing
 anyway) and that the faster I/O speed increases the likelyhood of hitting
 the deadlock.  If you can still reproduce this bug while performing the
 newfs on the raw partition, let me know.
 
 --
 Justin T. Gibbs
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