From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 27 12:29:21 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA06163 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 12:29:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from panzer.plutotech.com (panzer.plutotech.com [206.168.67.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA06150 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 12:29:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ken@panzer.plutotech.com) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.plutotech.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) id NAA53089; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:28:26 -0700 (MST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199901272028.NAA53089@panzer.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: WD/ide_pci bug! [was Re: SOFTUPDATES hangs keyboard ] In-Reply-To: from Matt Behrens at "Jan 27, 99 12:07:52 pm" To: matt@zigg.com (Matt Behrens) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:28:26 -0700 (MST) Cc: gnb@itga.com.au, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28s (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt Behrens wrote... > Never mind. Apparently it went south on me while I was having > lunch. > > I got this curious error when I paniced the debugger (paraphrased): > > HELP! busy_count is less then 0 (-1) > > Is this something of a clue? I've never been able to sync the > drives at all by panicing, it can't communicate with the IDE > controller for some reason. Lots of status 0x58's. - That's not a fatal error. - You didn't write down the whole message. (the whole message would have told you what function generated the error message, and which drive caused the problem) - I think there still may be a bug in the devstat implementation in the wd driver that causes the busy count to go negative sometimes. Anyway, I wouldn't worry too much about it. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message