From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 3 21:30:14 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA13492 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 21:30:14 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA13486 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 21:30:12 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA18283; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 21:29:43 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199506040429.VAA18283@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: kernel page fault while doing tar to /dev/rft0 To: steve2@genesis.tiac.net (Steve Gerakines) Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 21:29:42 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199506040242.WAA26580@genesis.tiac.net> from "Steve Gerakines" at Jun 3, 95 10:42:02 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1278 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Yes, it is a derefernced null some place in the Driver, some one > > is suppose to be working on fixing this but I have not heard from > > them in 2 months :-(. > > About three weeks. I just finished getting settled from a big move > from my apartment. Fun stuff. It was not you I was refering to :-). > In one of your previous messages I could've sworn you said you > were going to take care of this. It's being caused by a call to > the strategy routine in ft which is supposed to do nothing except return > an I/O error on the buffer. This worked okay under 1.1.5 but since I'm > not running 2.0 yet I have no idea why it is broken. And that is why I forwarded it on to someone else, I lost the tape drive I had here (it was only here for a system build so I had a very small window to intergrate and test your 1.x changes into 2.0, which I did get done. I ran out of time debugging the null derefernece, I passed this on to some one else after putting them within 10 lines of the problem. I just looked up my invoice for that order and it was shipped on March 27th, so infact it has been > 2 months! -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD