From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 28 18:25:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA28429 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:25:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from american.com (biscayne.american.com [204.253.96.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA28423 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:25:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from muir-woods.american.com (muir-woods.american.com [204.253.96.201]) by american.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA07847; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 21:24:33 -0400 Received: (from brad@localhost) by muir-woods.american.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id VAA19129; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 21:24:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 21:24:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199608290124.VAA19129@muir-woods.american.com> From: Brad Parker To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: mbone@ISI.EDU Subject: corrupt cache with stable + adaptec 2940 + mbone? Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've been running FreeBSD stable (2.1.5-release, actually) for some time now and every once and a while it freaks out and everything starts dumping core. Tonight it seemed to corrupt the disk cache (i.e. cached inodes) as sed stopped working (it would just hang and eat cpu). This was after after emacs and gcc dumped core once, but them worked fine. Sed had been working fine all day. I reinstalled sed from /usr/src and then it worked fine again. (I did this assuming it would clear the in-core-inodes as we used to call them) My problem seems correlated with problems on the mbone - today I got hundreds of "Aug 27 13:30:54 muir-woods mrouted[52]: warning - received packet shorter (576 bytes) than hdr+data length (20+1449)" type messages on my console... I'm running mrouted 3.8 and using this machine as a multicast router, although no one was using the mbone inside our net, to the best of my knowledge. The last time I experienced this sort of bit rot was few weeks ago when someone unleashed a few thousands routes... Very similar result - programs start dropping core. I reboot and everthing is fine. Anyone else seen this? (I suspect a bug in the mbone code in freebsd-2.1.5) P120, 32mb, Adaptec 2940, SMC8416T ethernet card... -brad From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 29 06:59:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA09187 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 06:59:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zcias1.ziff.com (ias1.iacnet.com [140.244.1.69]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA09182 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 06:59:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.zd.com (hercules.zdis.zd.com) by ias1.iacnet.com (PMDF V5.0-5 #16455) id <01I8UEA81FDS00EZSD@ias1.iacnet.com> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 09:58:54 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail.zd.com ((IBM OS/2 SENDMAIL VERSION 1.3.17/1.0) id AA2242; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 10:01:43 -0700 Received: by Ziff-Davis (Lotus Notes Mail Gateway for SMTP V1.1) id 04C50D828A1E4B7C80256395004C117C; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 10:01:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 14:55:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Li Subject: Install problem with Dual F/W SCSI2 To: freebsd-stable Message-id: <9608291701.AA2242@mail.zd.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: Text/Plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Importance: High Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have an IBM 704 with: two Adaptec 7880 boards, each with one drive the IDs are: 7 for the boards and 8 for the drives. on one board there is a SCSI CD on ID 6 I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 stable, but the boot disk install does not find any adaptors, and reports that it finds no discs. I've disabled the Wide negotiation. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks, ml From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 29 08:05:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA12653 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 08:05:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA12648 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 08:05:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by agora.rdrop.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0uw8eY-0008vkC; Thu, 29 Aug 96 08:05 PDT Message-Id: From: garyh@agora.rdrop.com (Gary Hanson) Subject: Re: Install problem with Dual F/W SCSI2 To: Mark_Li@zd.com (Mark Li) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 08:05:06 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9608291701.AA2242@mail.zd.com> from "Mark Li" at Aug 29, 96 02:55:42 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have an IBM 704: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 stable, but the boot disk install does not > find any adaptors, and reports that it finds no discs. I've disabled the > Wide negotiation. Any suggestions would be helpful. I have one of these also. FreeBSD can't find the onboard controllers because it isn't looking in the right place. There is work underway to fix this problem, perhaps it might be done by 2.2's release. But you can install FreeBSD on the system now; there's a kernel patch to find and use the onboard controllers, but it is only a hack right now. The 'recommended' way of installing FreeBSD is to hook the onboard drives to a different SCSI controller temporarily, install the system, build and install a new kernel with the patch, then remove the temporary controller, hook up the onboard controller, and go. There's also an alternate installation method involving a temporary IDE drive, but I won't go into the details at the moment. Send me mail to get the patch and further info about how to do the installation; I don't want to clutter the list with long messages that are only interesting to a few people. --Gary Hanson garyh@agora.rdrop.com From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 29 12:58:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA00641 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 12:58:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from FileServ1.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (FileServ1.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA00636 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 12:58:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (annexr3-15.slip.Uni-Koeln.DE) by FileServ1.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE with SMTP id AA08317 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Thu, 29 Aug 1996 21:58:21 +0200 Received: (from se@localhost) by x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id VAA22190; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 21:35:20 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 21:35:20 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199608291935.VAA22190@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> From: Stefan Esser To: Mark Li Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: Install problem with Dual F/W SCSI2 In-Reply-To: <9608291701.AA2242@mail.zd.com> References: <9608291701.AA2242@mail.zd.com> Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mark Li writes: > I have an IBM 704 with: > > two Adaptec 7880 boards, each with one drive > the IDs are: 7 for the boards and 8 for the drives. > on one board there is a SCSI CD on ID 6 > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 stable, but the boot disk install does not > find any adaptors, and reports that it finds no discs. I've disabled the Wide > negotiation. Any suggestions would be helpful. The IBM 704 is a multi-processor capable P6, right ? I'm just preparing a set of patches for somebody to try, and the output from these patches ought to make it possible to fully support that system. You'll need a custom boot floppy and will have to apply a patch, but the next SNAP and release should work out of the box ... If anybody got the register map of the Orion chip set (especially the host to PCI bridge) and was willing to scan or FAX them to me, this would help a lot !!! Regards, STefan From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 29 16:32:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA16045 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 16:32:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA16035 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 16:32:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.7.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id QAA22607; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 16:31:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199608292331.QAA22607@root.com> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.root.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Stefan Esser cc: Mark Li , freebsd-stable Subject: Re: Install problem with Dual F/W SCSI2 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 29 Aug 1996 21:35:20 +0200." <199608291935.VAA22190@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 16:31:32 -0700 Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Mark Li writes: > > I have an IBM 704 with: > > > > two Adaptec 7880 boards, each with one drive > > the IDs are: 7 for the boards and 8 for the drives. > > on one board there is a SCSI CD on ID 6 > > > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 stable, but the boot disk install does not > > find any adaptors, and reports that it finds no discs. I've disabled the Wide > > negotiation. Any suggestions would be helpful. > >The IBM 704 is a multi-processor capable P6, right ? It's the same machine, OEMed from Intel, that wcarchive is made from. The patch that Gary mentioned is the one that came originally from you - back when I was trying to get the second PCI bus working (the 7880's are on the second PCI bus). -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 30 13:53:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA21266 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 13:53:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zcias1.ziff.com (ias1.iacnet.com [140.244.1.69]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA21256 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 13:53:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail2.zd.com (pluto.zdis.zd.com) by ias1.iacnet.com (PMDF V5.0-5 #16455) id <01I8W6XAIG9C00CR6E@ias1.iacnet.com> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 16:50:01 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail2.zd.com ((IBM OS/2 SENDMAIL VERSION 1.3.17/1.0) id AA5016; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 16:52:50 -0700 Received: by Ziff-Davis (Lotus Notes Mail Gateway for SMTP V1.1) id 0BE0FAA96AFD0ADA8025639600381BCE; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 16:52:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 11:14:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Li Subject: Re: Install problem with Dual F/W SCSI2 To: Stefan Esser Cc: Mark Li , freebsd-stable Message-id: <9608302352.AA5016@mail2.zd.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: Text/Plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Does this mean that we will be able to support multi-processors soon? I'm based in London and have one of these machines in the office. However, I have eight of the machines in our Munich offices. I will probably go over sometime next week to work on them. Where in Germany are you? Regards, ml Mark Li writes: > I have an IBM 704 with: > > two Adaptec 7880 boards, each with one drive > the IDs are: 7 for the boards and 8 for the drives. > on one board there is a SCSI CD on ID 6 > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 stable, but the boot disk install does not > find any adaptors, and reports that it finds no discs. I've disabled the Wide > negotiation. Any suggestions would be helpful. The IBM 704 is a multi-processor capable P6, right ? I'm just preparing a set of patches for somebody to try, and the output from these patches ought to make it possible to fully support that system. You'll need a custom boot floppy and will have to apply a patch, but the next SNAP and release should work out of the box ... If anybody got the register map of the Orion chip set (especially the host to PCI bridge) and was willing to scan or FAX them to me, this would help a lot !!! Regards, STefan From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 30 14:24:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA24761 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 14:24:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from FileServ1.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (FileServ1.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA24754 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 14:24:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (annexr3-15.slip.Uni-Koeln.DE) by FileServ1.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE with SMTP id AA23995 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Fri, 30 Aug 1996 23:23:45 +0200 Received: (from se@localhost) by x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id XAA07268; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 23:09:37 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 23:09:37 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199608302109.XAA07268@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> From: Stefan Esser To: Mark Li Cc: Stefan Esser , Mark Li , freebsd-stable Subject: Re: Install problem with Dual F/W SCSI2 In-Reply-To: <9608302352.AA5011@mail2.zd.com> References: <9608302352.AA5011@mail2.zd.com> Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mark Li writes: > Does this mean that we will be able to support multi-processors soon? The prototype multi-processor support available for FreeBSD should work on that system, too, but surely is not yet really ready for use on a production system. > I'm based in London and have one of these machines in the office. However, I > have eight of the machines in our Munich offices. I will probably go over > sometime next week to work on them. Where in Germany are you? I'm in Cologne, just the next Roman settlement north of Bonn (which until very recently has been the capital of this state :-) Regards, STefan