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Date:      Mon, 17 Dec 2001 16:04:15 -0600
From:      mikea <mikea@mikea.ath.cx>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers
Message-ID:  <20011217160415.A73036@mikea.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <01Dec17.155810cst.119046@gateway.thinkburstmedia.com>; from jbozza@thinkburst.com on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 04:00:06PM -0600
References:  <20011217144541.A45973@colnta.acns.ab.ca> <01Dec17.155810cst.119046@gateway.thinkburstmedia.com>

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On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 04:00:06PM -0600, Jaime Bozza wrote:
> >> For whatever it may be worth, my "build machine" (which is one of the
> >> machines on which I track both -STABLE and -CURRENT daily) is an SMP
> box.
> >> It also has a local CVS repository on it (from which I update the CVS
> >> repository on my laptop, which laso tracks -STABLE and -CURRENT
> daily).
> >> 
> >> I am not having any problems with -STABLE that I know of.
> >
> >It might be worth a lot :).  It is possible that I and a few others
> have
> >bad hardware, and there is no problem with -stable.  It seems unlikely,
> >but it is not at all impossible I guess.
> >
> >Are you running any combination of samba/nfs/ata?
> 
> I wanted to add to this thread as well.  On our internal Samba server
> (running a recent Stable build with ATA - no SCSI), a large "delete
> files" from within Explorer on a Windows 2000 machine caused the system
> to reboot.  No warnings, no messages, no nothing, just a reboot.
> 
> Wasn't sure what happened until I brought it up and the same employee
> tried to delete the same directories again.  Another reboot.
> 
> Using rm on the directories from a tcsh prompt worked fine.

Just as a data point on when things might have begun to go wrong,
my SMP machine uses ATA UDMA-66 drives, SAMBA and SMBFS, and I
can't remember ever having anything like the problems described
in this thread.

My last build was October 28th. 

-- 
Mike Andrews
mikea@mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin since 1964

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