From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 23 09:11:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA02826 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jan 1996 09:11:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from haven.uniserve.com (haven.uniserve.com [198.53.215.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA02798 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 1996 09:10:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by haven.uniserve.com id <30747-3>; Tue, 23 Jan 1996 09:13:32 -0000 Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 09:13:31 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: "Heiko W.Rupp" cc: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, hwr@pilhuhn.de, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: spontaneous reboot with -stable In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Heiko W.Rupp wrote: > Tom Samplonious: > > > I agree completely. Although, I'm still using a preliminary version of > > the new driver, I'm seeing a record uptime of 14 days and counting. > > I still have the old driver and my uptimes were 21 and 14 days. > Yesterday it crashed two times within an hour and one time it was > within close() ... > > > Previously, the record was 10 days, followed by 3 days. Every other time it > > would crash consistently every two days. > > Hm? Has your computer been stable before? Not with a 2940 in it. Disk hangs and total lockups were common under the old driver. Problems were also experienced with wcarchive, which is why a lot of the changes were made. It seems that only users with 2842's (and maybe 2742's) seem to have a problem with the new driver. Tom