From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 5 12:17:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA20486 for current-outgoing; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:17:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from widget.xmission.com (root@widget.xmission.com [198.60.22.228]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA20474 Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:17:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rlenk@localhost) by widget.xmission.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA06046; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 13:17:05 -0700 From: Ron Lenk Message-Id: <199603052017.NAA06046@widget.xmission.com> Subject: Re: 2842 and the disappearing file-system :-( To: imb@scgt.oz.au (michael butler) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 13:17:04 -0700 (MST) Cc: stable@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603051338.AAA14678@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> from "michael butler" at Mar 6, 96 00:38:00 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Without warning today, the recurrent collapse of -stable with "panic: > inconsistent xxx queue" managed to trash my root file-system beyond recovery > (/etc et al) and a substantial proportion of anything vaguely near a > file-subsystem root directory (i.e. /var, /usr and /home are all separate > file-systems and all were damaged to varying degrees). I presume that this > was just particularly bad timing as there was significant activity on all of > them at that moment (of the order of ~60 transfers second). Well, I can tell you that you're not alone in seeing these particular problems with -stable and the 2842. I've seen the same types of panics and hang conditions with -stable for the last two months. ( since the import of the new ahc driver in Jan ) Fortunately, however, I have been using a 2.1-RELEASE kernel without incident ( up 15 days right now ), so I haven't seen any spectacular filesystem damage. In any case, others have mentioned the same kinds of panics, and not necessarily with the 2842. In particular, people with 1742 controllers have seen them as well. Rod Grimes mentioned in one message that he has not seen them on PCI systems, but rather only on EISA systems. ( This would make sense, since the 2842 appears acts like an EISA card ) Anyway, I've vented my frustration in the past, and have been more or less quiet about things, hoping that someone would come along and fix the problem. :) Ron -- Ron Lenk -- rlenk@xmission.com