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Date:      Sun, 9 Dec 2001 19:29:09 +0100
From:      Morsal Roudbay <morsal@swipnet.se>
To:        Richard Nyberg <rnyberg@it.su.se>
Cc:        Samuel Tardieu <sam@inf.enst.fr>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, "Kristian K. Nielsen" <freebsd@jkkn.dk>
Subject:   Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-driver
Message-ID:  <20011209182909.GA3410@zigman.2y.net>
In-Reply-To: <20011207120822.A19038@gromit.it.su.se>
References:  <20011205204045.GA7485@zigman.2y.net> <2001-12-07-10-59-13%2Btrackit%2Bsam@inf.enst.fr> <20011207120822.A19038@gromit.it.su.se>

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I use soft-updates too. Same thing goes for me, no panic... just shutdown.


On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 12:08:22PM +0100, Richard Nyberg wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:59:13AM +0100, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> > I am experiencing the same crashes on my new machine (ATA100 IDE drive): they
> > appeared when I noticed that I had forgotten to use soft-updates. After
> > I have turned them on, I experienced the first crash in 15 minutes. Then I
> > get one every two days, when doing heavy disk IOs. I got a crash 10 minutes
> > ago when the machine was unattended though (and not doing important disk
> > IOs), and could see a "panic" message on the console. Unfortunately, I hadn't
> > enough free space in /var/crash to save the kernel.
> > 
> > Do you people use soft-updates? From my experience on this problem, I assume
> > that either soft-updates or the ATA driver may be causing those spontanous
> > reboots.
> 
> Yes I use soft-updates. The peculiar thing aboout my crash though is that
> there was no panic; the machine just froze and the screen went blank, so
> maybe I was hit by a different problem.
> 
> 	-Richard
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