Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 11:47:00 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> To: jon@vcnet.com (Jon Rust) Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2940 and large drives Message-ID: <199607201847.LAA05138@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 20 Jul 1996 10:21:24 PDT." <v03007804ae16c497f6f5@[205.228.248.22]>
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>Well since it crashed in the middle of the night, AND rebooted itself with >NO syslog entries, how am I supposed to tell? I came in in the morning, and >the machines sitting on the BIOS screen (you know, where it checks the >memory, tells you what kind of IDE drive you got, and the scsi card >announces its presence) complaining about head/sector translations waiting >for me to hit any key. The information above is all I had. Put DDB into your kernel so that the machine won't auto reboot on a panic. It will also allow you to recover a stack trace of where the problem occured. Sometimes a panic condition is so severe, you don't get a syslog entry... >Since turning off the "enable DOS partitions > 1g" option in the card, all >is well... or at least it hasn't crashed in about 24 hours. A new record! Are you accessing a DOS partition at all? >Thanks to those who helped... though no one's suggested a straightforward >way to partition up new drives. Linux has cfdisk, but I guess I'm not in >Kansas anymore, Toto. You have to know what the right geometry to use is since, unlike Linux, the individual device drivers don't export information about the BIOS goemetry. I'll be the first to admit that the FreeBSD fdisk is not as easy to use as it could be. >jon > ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> >Jon Rust <http://www.vcnet.com/>; >VCNet For info, call us or email to >805.383.3500 info@vcnet.com > PGP Fingerprint = 58 55 6C 46 4C 2B 7E 65 BB 35 AB 02 E1 27 73 7B >"African swallows maybe, but not a European swallow. That's my point." ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > > -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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