Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 17:03:55 +1100 From: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> To: "John Saunders" <john.saunders@nlc.net.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel panic with recent RELENG_3 Message-ID: <199902030603.RAA20524@lightning.itga.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of 03 Feb 1999 16:37:29 %2B1100.
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> Has anybody else noticed the IDE disk flackyness lately? One one machine > I have a ccd mirror, and on another machine a vinum mirror. If I hit > these filesystems heavily it's a garantee to lock, no panic, virtual > console switching works, ping works, but everything stops. I discovered what sounds very similar which bit me only when softupdates were enabled. I also discovered that if I put the 0xa0ff flags on the drive spec in the kernel config (to enable DMA/32 bit/ multi-sector transfers), it works fine. My conclusion was some bug in the old-fashioned bit of the IDE driver, but no-one accepted my offers of a guaranteed hang to help debug the problem :< To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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