From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 27 02:30:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA14022 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 02:30:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gulfa.kuwait.net (root@gulfa.kuwait.net [199.173.153.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA13990 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 02:29:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whatever.kuwait.net(src addr [194.54.234.229]) (1962 bytes) by gulfa.kuwait.net via sendmail with P\:smtp/R:inet_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) (ident using rfc1413) id for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 12:29:41 +0300 (GMT) (Smail-3.2.0.96 1997-Jun-2 #31 built 1997-Jul-11) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 12:19:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Thamer Al-Herbish X-Sender: shadows@whatever.kuwait.net Reply-To: shadows@whitefang.com To: Jim Durham cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wangtek tape drive: Kernel crashes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Jim Durham wrote: > > I've had similar problems with 3.0-SNAP 970807. However, I did not > have this problem with 2.1.6 or 2.1.7, from which I upgraded. > > I posted this about a month ago and one of the core team (J'org) > is aware of it, but didn't have any system to test it on. > > I'm running on interrupt 9/2 at the moment. > > wt0 at 0x300-0x301 irq 9 drq 1 on isa I've talked to someone else who had a similar problem (not sure which fbsd version he's using), it seems it doesnt crash as often with "newer tape drives". I've tried it on irq 5 and dma 1 strangely enough, it works for a while then crashes. The fact that it crashes randomly makes me think its some "undefined behaviour" bug. I've yet to make out that bug report just been too damn busy lately, but I'll get it out today or tommorow. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thamer Al-Herbish tmh@kuwait.net UNIX Programmer Gulfnet Kuwait Floor 11, Al-Gas Tower. Network Analyst Ahmad Al-Jabar St. Sharq, Kuwait. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ For PGP key finger shadows@kuwait.net ]