From owner-aic7xxx Wed Aug 29 15:21:58 2001 Delivered-To: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Received: from aslan.scsiguy.com (aslan.scsiguy.com [63.229.232.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C628337B40F for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 15:21:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gibbs@scsiguy.com) Received: from scsiguy.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aslan.scsiguy.com (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f7TMLlY02779; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 16:21:47 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from gibbs@scsiguy.com) Message-Id: <200108292221.f7TMLlY02779@aslan.scsiguy.com> To: Larry Battraw Cc: aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2940U2W under Linux 2.4.x In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Aug 2001 12:09:57 PDT." <3B8BEC85.8050807@home.com> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 16:21:46 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Ok, things seem to behave a little differently with the modification >you asked for (but without KDB compiled in). I've included two bootlogs >from that as they seem to have failed in marginally different ways. >I've seen this type of problem in other 2.4.3+ kernels, and I'm not sure >what triggers it vs. the instant failure we've been seeing. Anyway, >I've also attached a bootlog with the modification and KDB, which fails >in the original way. One problem that cropped up is you asked for a >backtrace (bt) which doesn't work-- it says it's not in kernel space. I >did a process back trace on the active task instead, although I'm not >sure that's helpful. Have you verified that there are no new BIOS versions available for your motherboard? From what I can tell, when we write to registers over the PCI bus, we are not getting the expected results. This may mean that the PCI chipset has a non-standard caching feature enabled that violates the PCI spec. I've seen this on some other VIA based boards. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message