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Date:      Sun, 1 Oct 2000 14:06:45 -0500 (CDT)
From:      BSD <bsd@shell-server.com>
To:        "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Another 4.1-S panic (full report)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10010011401380.70294-100000@marvin.shell-server.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20001001132645.00cae340@207.227.119.2>

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On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote:
> This looks very similar to some crashing I had months back.  An older drive 
> didn't seem to like it at all and stopped using it for that drive.  Panics 
> continued and removing the drive physically didn't help.  Turning off 
> softupdates for all drives did eliminate the panic and later commits at 
> some point fixed the problem and it could be turned back on, even on the 
> drive it didn't like.  No need to recompile, just 'tunefs -n disable' worked.

	So...given these later commits, I should be fine with softupdates
now, no?

> >cpu             I686_CPU                # aka Pentium Pro(tm)
> >options         NO_F00F_HACK
> 
> The F00F problem is only with Pentiums.

	Exactly why I disable the work-around code with NO_F00F_HACK
option :)

> >options         SC_HISTORY_SIZE=8192    # number of history buffer lines
> Rather large and why one would need to go back so many lines.

	Good point here though.  I haven't had the best of luck with the
syscons driver, it seems very touchy about its options.  There, deleted
all syscons options.  Defaults are wonderful. :)  2 reboots from now we'll
see if these changes failed to do anthing vs the rebooting problem.

		--Bart



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