From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 30 21:14:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA27252 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 30 May 1998 21:14:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles307.castles.com [208.214.167.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA27246; Sat, 30 May 1998 21:14:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA09016; Sat, 30 May 1998 20:09:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805310309.UAA09016@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: tcobb cc: "'shimon@simon-shapiro.org'" , "freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org" , "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: DPT Redux In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 30 May 1998 03:08:21 EDT." <509A2986E5C5D111B7DD0060082F32A402FAE8@freya.circle.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 20:09:41 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I shutdown and rebooted machine (SYNC failed on shutdown) > Allowed FreeBSD to boot, it returned the following for sd1 > sd1: type 0 fixed SCSI 2 > sd1: Direct-Access 0MB (1 512 byte sectors) > > Then, system continued booting and finally panic'd with a "Page Fault in > Supervisor Mode" error prior to mounting drives. Did you happen to write down the details from this message? In conjunction with your kernel image, these are required in order to determine what happened. It's possible that something doesn't like being asked to boot from a zero-sized disk. It's also possible that something else later got upset - it's not clear where in the chain of events the panic occurred (see above). Thanks for the extra info. Are you able to simulate the failure by eg. disconnecting one of the 'active' drives? If you can't do this on a regular basis, I believe we are able to arrange temporary access to a similar but idle system where this can be simulate. Simon may also be able to offer some suggestions inre. possible poor interaction between the dpt driver and some firmware revisions. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message