Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:26:38 -0500 From: Matthew Reimer <mreimer@vpop.net> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deadlock with ATA disk on FreeBSD 4.8 Stable Message-ID: <3EA5895E.2070601@vpop.net> In-Reply-To: <lists.freebsd.stable.20030422200449.C95995@cvs.imp.ch> References: <lists.freebsd.stable.20030422200449.C95995@cvs.imp.ch>
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I had the same problem with bad ATA disks on -stable in the last six months, but I haven't tracked it down. Matt Martin Blapp wrote: > Hi Soeren, > > We encounter here a deadlock with a quite new ATA 120GB disk. > The disk worked good for about 3 weeks, but now we have a strange > problem. > > There seems to be one defective file on the disk. fsck doesn't find > it, and if I do a > > cat file > /dev/null > > The machine locks completly. Serial console is dead, no remote DDB > via ALTBREAK possible anymore, no panic message, just freezed. > > The evil began after we installed this ATA disk. It only happens for > one file on this disk, the other 10000 files are fine. > > Do you have a idea why break into the debugger doesn't work anymore ? > Even if we have a hard-error on the disk, this should still work, > shouln't it ? > > Martin > > Martin Blapp, <mb@imp.ch> <mbr@FreeBSD.org> > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > ImproWare AG, UNIXSP & ISP, Zurlindenstrasse 29, 4133 Pratteln, CH > Phone: +41 61 826 93 00 Fax: +41 61 826 93 01 > PGP: <finger -l mbr@freebsd.org> > PGP Fingerprint: B434 53FC C87C FE7B 0A18 B84C 8686 EF22 D300 551E > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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