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Date:      Sat, 9 May 1998 15:53:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom <tom@sdf.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        kpielorz@caladan.tdx.co.uk, beng@lcs.mit.edu, dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dump/restore problem (was: Network problem with 2.2.6-RELEASE)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980509154354.10035B-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <199805092242.PAA03567@usr07.primenet.com>

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On Sat, 9 May 1998, Terry Lambert wrote:

> >   Besides didn't this bug just hang the machine when both channels were
> > accessed at once.
> 
> 
> Occasionally.

  Never experienced a hang every.  Since I'm always accessing both at
once, I'd expect to see a hang once and a while.

> More often, it silently corrupted the data, in that the transfer was
> marked completed, but had actually been interrupted.
> 
> This would easily account for your symptoms.

  But fsck shows no damage.  I've been testing the filesystem daily just
to prove this.  Every evening, the filesystem gets gigs of data dumped on
it, and then every morning I dismount it and fsck it.

...
> One other thing that occurs to me, now that you have stated that
> you have a 82371SB (there are no notes on the Intel page for this
> part; are you sure you don't have a 82371AB?).  This probably means
> you have a Triton chipset.

  I'm quite sure about the part.  It is in the dmesg output.  This is a
Triton II chipset (a ASUS P55T2P4S)

> These chipsets do not support more than 2 simultaneous contention
> requests for PCI bus masters.
> 
> Since the Adaptec SCSI is a bus mastering device, if you are not
> running the IDE controller in PIO mode, if you have any other PCI

  I can only operate the IDE controller in PIO mode, as the UltraDMA
driver is only available for current.  Besides, I don't believe the Triton
II boards ever supported UltraDMA.

> master device (ie: some ethernet controllers), then this may also be
> your problem.
> 
> 
> 					Terry Lambert
> 					terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.

Tom


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