From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 15 17:13:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (milquetoast.CS.McGill.CA [132.206.2.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03A1F37B9F4 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:13:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mat@milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca) Received: (from mat@localhost) by milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA21905; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:13:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:13:01 -0500 From: Mathew Kanner To: Greg Lehey Cc: Soren Schmidt , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ata + vinum problems Message-ID: <20000315201301.A20777@cs.mcgill.ca> References: <20000314182259.I17156@cs.mcgill.ca> <200003150829.JAA22516@freebsd.dk> <20000315095930.A7309@cs.mcgill.ca> <20000315162903.A10174@cs.mcgill.ca> <20000315165410.A3663@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.15i In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey's message [Re: ata + vinum problems] as of Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 04:54:10PM -0800 Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, CANADA Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mar 15, Greg Lehey wrote: > > Replying to myself. By now this is probably the wrong list. > > I'm not sure what to do anymore. I've tried to set the bios > > settings back to what I've had when it worked it it doesn't seem to > > want to go. I've set the drives for ata/66 and ata/33. I've moved > > IRQ's around and even tried forcing them. Here are sets of dmesg and > > backtraces. This also happens with a kernel and modules compiled on > > sunday. > > The part that really bothers me is that I have a nearly > > identical machine, except for an extra drive in it that originally had > > the same problems but when I disabled the extra periphs, the problem > > went away. > > I'm a bit behind in my mail, and I don't have time to give this proper > attention yet, but I do see that your problem relates to soft > updates. It's not clear that the soft updates themselves are a cause > of the problem, or just a facilitator, but it would be interesting to > see what happens if you turn them off. Note also that there are some > bogons in your config, to judge by the vinum startup messages. I'll > analyse this in a day or two when I (hopefully) have more time. The bogons me were messing me around with Vinum before I figured out that the crash had messed up one of the disklabels. This occurs occasionally after a crash. I did try it couple of days back with and without softupdates. Softupdates only made the problems appear more quickly but I've lost track of all the combinations that's I've tried so I should try one more time without. Thanks, --Mat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message