From owner-freebsd-scsi Sat Mar 17 17:29:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3774337B71D; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 17:29:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA47820; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 19:29:27 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 19:29:27 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: Tom Samplonius Cc: James FitzGibbon , , Subject: Re: Mylex eXtremeRAID 2000 timeout/hang In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Tom Samplonius wrote: > > P.S.: I'm getting stuff in my dmesg buffer from _previous_ boots... > > I've never seen a system do that. That's how I could cut/paste that > > panic. :-) Is that a bug, or a feature? Its a nice feature (which my > > other 4.2-STABLE boxes don't seem to have). Some of the information > > Been around for a long time. As long as your hardware preserved > the memory state during a warm boot, the previous dmesg can be > found by the kernel. Interesting. I knew that would have to be a requirement, but I figured I would have had more than one system that did it. The one that does it happens to be a SuperMicro system with the ServerWorks III HE-SL chipset. I assume this is a function of the BIOS and not the chipset, since I have a Compaq server with the ServerWorks III LE chipset and it apparently clears memory on reboot. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message