From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 17 14: 4:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mikea.ath.cx (okc-65-30-192-11.mmcable.com [65.30.192.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB00337B419 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:04:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mikea@localhost) by mikea.ath.cx (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fBHM4FM73064 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 16:04:15 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from mikea) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 16:04:15 -0600 From: mikea 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> References: <20011217144541.A45973@colnta.acns.ab.ca> <01Dec17.155810cst.119046@gateway.thinkburstmedia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01Dec17.155810cst.119046@gateway.thinkburstmedia.com>; from jbozza@thinkburst.com on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 04:00:06PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message