From owner-freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 23 23:56:57 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60B8D1065693 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:56:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBD528FC12 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:56:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.dons.net.au (ppp203-122-198-42.lns6.adl6.internode.on.net [203.122.198.42]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p0NNurCh098089 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:26:54 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <4D3CAE4E.2040407@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:26:53 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <5253D900-7A8F-43D7-8E86-88C0A14EF0B8@gsoft.com.au> References: <4D3CAE4E.2040407@gmail.com> To: CDP X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) X-Spam-Score: 0.163 () BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System lockups caused by USB external HDD X-BeenThere: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD support for USB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:56:57 -0000 On 24/01/2011, at 9:10, CDP wrote: > g_vfs_done():da0s2[WRITE(offset=3Dxxxxxxxxxxxx, length=3D16384)]error = =3D 5 > [several more lines similar to the above] > panic: softdep_move_dependencies: need merge code > cpuid =3D 0 > KDB: stack backtrace: > #0 0x... at kdb_backtrace+0x5e > #1 0x... at panic+0x182 It looks like the disk is dying, or the FS is corrupt (the former might = cause the later). Can you run smartctl on the disk? Unfortunately a lot of enclosures = reject SMART commands so you might not be able to :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C